Re: Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide

From	Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide
Date	2017-07-24 22:20 +0200
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On 07/24/2017 10:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Georgi Naplatanov composed on 2017-07-24 18:02 (UTC+0300):
> 
>> I'm using Debian 9 and KDE.
> 
>> I downloaded FireFox Developer edition and Thunderbird (both from
>> mozilla.org website) and Thunderbird's scroll bars are about twice wider
>> than FireFox's ones. Can this behavior be configured on Debian or is it
>> an issue with Thunderbird.
> 
> Those are GTK scrollbars, controlled initially by whatever theme(s) are
> installed and selected.
> 
>> There is a screenshot.
> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/wplie8ujosxe1du/firefox-thunderb-scrollbar.png?dl=0
> 
> Firefox's are a too narrow sourge on users with limited hand-pointing device
> coordination and/or vision, which Plasma unfortunately copied from Gnome.
> 
> Check about:buildconfig in TB. Maybe you got a version build with GTK2. FB is
> built with GTK3. GTK has ultimate control of scrollbar width, which for GTK3 you
> can fine tune through ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.

Hi Felix,

thanks for your explanation. I checked and official Mozilla's
Thunderbird build uses GTK3. The file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css didn't
exist in my home directory and I copied

/usr/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

to

~/.config/gtk-3.0/

and changed line #3133 from

min-width: 14px;

to

min-width: 7px;

This line is under

scrollbar button

selector and scrollbars are now tiny :)

Thank you very much.

Kind regards
Georgi

> cf.
> http://twicetwo.com/blog/linux/gtk/theme/customization/2016/05/04/per-user-gtk-customization.html
> 
> see also
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/noiascrollbars/
>

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Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2017-07-24 17:10 +0200
  Re: Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-24 21:30 +0200
    Re: Thunderbiird's (from moziila.org) scroll bars are too wide Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2017-07-24 22:20 +0200

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