To make scrool bar wider
 

It is almost impossible to correctly access the xxxxx thin vertical scroll bar when using finger.

Is there a way to make the scroll bar much wider as it is in the "Contact" application?

If it is impossible, can somebody make a plug-in to make MicroB browser can have a wide scroll bar?

It will help us all. Thanks a lot.

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As a left hander, I would like all scrollbars on the left.

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I agree!!
We should be able to put them where we want them.

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Then choose the Glasser theme, and enjoy.

It looks ugly, IMHO, but if you want nicer, you'll have to draw your own pixmaps or redirect it to use the wide ones.

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Having the option of a wider scroll bar would be nice, but I hope you know you can scroll with your finger by dragging the web page up and down directly. :)

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you can drag the web page in a browser, but you may need a wide scroll bar in other applications when using fingers.

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i have make wide scroll bar. it works. please see,

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17827&highlight=scrollbar

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Awesome! Works Great. How do you do this? Can this be done with other themes

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Hmm, it didn't seem to work for me. Could you post a picture of the browser with the fatter vertical scrollbar?

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sample screenshot please see followed,

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it is easy. i have just changed 2 or 3 lines in file gtkrc (parameters related with scroll bar size). and also some .png image files as attched in zip package have resized using adobe photoshop.

it seems that it will also work if you copy those files in the zip package to other theme directory to replace original items.

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Can this made into a deb or something which is easy for the linux noob?

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this is the .deb package of echo theme with wide scroll bar. (my 1st deb package)

echo theme with wide scroll bar

how to use:

install echowb.deb with application manager. and then change theme to echowb.

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Thanks so much. WOrks great. So trivial but makes a big difference.

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Excelent, ah.sima. Thank you very much.

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ah.sima, that's what I call service! Thanks very much. (In fact it's better than service. It's *complete* service: First you bring up the problem. Then you solve it. Then you make it amateur-friendly.)

(My own preference would be to have the little-used horizontal scroll bar the old size; but I'm very pleased with this as it is. I was thinking I would have to grown a thumbnail :))

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it seems the heigth of horizontal scroll bar is using the same size of vertical scroll bar width. this is a problem.

( it is usually, many pages have correct page width will make the horizontal bar disapear when in full screen mode. this may make you happier )

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can you tell me how to change it using other themes? im using a slightly modifed version of konttori's nuvopearl theme. if i send you the .deb for it could you make the changes to it for me?

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following post has a zip file which contain all files related to this change, it may have many items in common for different themes ( i can not confirm. i am just a newbie for linux)

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ght=scroll+bar

remark:

1. file /usr/share/themes/echo/gtk-2.0/gtkrc have been revised to change setting of scroll bar size (2 or 3 lines, just related to scroll bar size). you may found changes compare to the original file with a file compare or diff program.
2. some image files related to picture of scroll bar at /usr/share/themes/echo/images directory has been resized.
3. you can change above files in your theme directory accordingly after you have installed you prefered theme .deb package to get a wide scroll bar theme.
4. if you want to make .deb package for the theme you have just revised, you can copy the theme directory to a linux machine with scratchbox developing environment installed, and run dpkg to generate your deb package in scratchbox. you may alse need to create a simple control file to control building process of your .deb package.

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wow. that .deb is grreat. thanks for that!

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This is so nice, thanks so much!

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Is there a way to have a small horizontal scrollbar for sites that do display a horizontal bar in full screen mode? Or is vertical and horizontal scollbars permanently tied together?

Rich

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it seems the microB web browser tied vertical and horizontal scroll bar size together. other programs, such as file manager, maemopad,etc., can display a wide vertical scroll bar and a thin horizontal scroll bar correctly when i have make some changes. it is not a good news.

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personally i dokt think it is that big of a deal and if anything having the thick horizontal scroll bar is a good thing. ps did i tell you how much better this has made my n800 experiance!

thanks again for the .deb

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i have upload echowb.deb package to maemo garage (just as a place for storage).

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Benson, when I enter this code, Xterm says that there is no such file or directory. And when I look with emelFM2, I have the whole path through /glasser but there is no gtkrc

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Hmmmm... You should, otherwise you don't have the theme. Which would be odd indeed. As root, I assume?

Anyway, be aware you'll need to do something with the images, too, if you want it to look nice. If you can figure out which images, netpbmtools or imagemagick make it easy to scale them 4x.

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I definitely have the theme. (I'm looking at it now!) What I have in the glasser/ directory is:

gtk-2.0/
images/
matchbox/
index.theme

and nothing else. And, yes, I was root.

[I'm not worried about its looks. I just like Glasser for when I want everything easiest to see. Usually, for looks' sake, I stick with nuvoClear (made, I think, by Underscore).]

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Ah... Perhaps I left out the gtk-2.0 bit? Yep, that's it. I'll go fix it right away. :o
Thanks!

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It's big, it's ugly, but is it ever convenient!