I realised some time ago that I never actually use the arrow buttons on scrollbars (especially in KDE, since KDE has intelligent mouse-wheel handling). So, since to me they are a waste of space, I made a patch to remove the arrow buttons, here’s a screenshot (300 KiB). The patch applies against recent SVN, and prolly most of KDE 3.x, but this isn’t tested.If you try it against a stable KDE release and it applies and works, then please say so in the comments, thanks!
One issue I’ve found is that now it’s hard to tell the scrollbar is actually a scrollbar. The arrow buttons are the key part when visually recognising that the widget is in fact a scrollbar and not just some button or a part of the frame-decoration. Also the patch doesn’t work well with the GTK-Qt widget engine, but I know how to fix this, I just can’t be bothered yet.
There is no option in preferences, you just have to have no arrow buttons. Maybe one day I’ll make it a proper patch with config dialog checkbox, etc. But not yet! I hope the patch is liked by some people.
Apply like so:
/your_SVN_root/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/$ patch < no_scrollbar_arrow_buttons.SVN_2005_07_24.diff
Please note, in the screenshot, the score of 15 for Mike Oldfield’s amaroK is partly because, as an amaroK developer, the scores in my collection are mostly bogus (due to testing), and also because the score deciding algo isn’t too fair for longer tracks (this one is 60 minutes long). In fact love that track!
