[CentOS] Scroll bar arrows missing and behaviour change

[Valeri Galtsev]

On 10/12/18 8:40 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> And I thought it was a Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE desktop for those who aren't familiar) thing!  Apparently it's a KDE thing.  I haven't experienced the scrollbar aspect (or maybe I just haven't done what you do) but my arrows are missing too.  I'm thinking this is a KDE Blasted Ugly Gotcha (BUG).  BTW, if you haven't already discovered it, if you position your cursor where the arrows used to be the "arrow functionality" still exists (if you can get the cursor position just right).  KDE now has invisible features...

In the past as programmers we were taught more wisdom than today's 
"coders" have been: One of the rules of thumb was:

Don't make any changes in [debugged] program unless they are absolutely 
necessary.

On a similar note: who remembers netscape navigator (web browser)? It 
was pleasantly not changing its appearance and UI (User Interface) for 
ages. These days Firefox and thunderbird are being rushed with new 
releases. "Releases" full of security holes (take a look at CentOS 
update history: firefox security updates are the most often ones). As if 
they are aiming to beat everybody in version number (currently major 
version in 50th-60th). But they can not beat Microsoft who has a 
release: Windows 2000.

</rant>
[no beginning of rant tag, as I'm not certain where to put it]

Valeri

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> I have done some Googling on this but everything I've found appears to be at
> least 2 years old and mostly refers to Gnome
> 
> TBH, I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it - maybe it's only happened to
> me.
> 
> At some point over the last few months the behaviour of the scroll bars
> changed and I'm finding it very annoying.
> 
> Firstly, the arrows have vanished.
> 
> Secondly, when clicking on the scroll bar background either above or below the
> drag bar instead of doing a page up or page down which is what it used to do
> (and what I want it to continue doing) it now moves the scroll bar to that
> absolute position, i.e. if I click on 75% down the scroll bar it jumps to 75%
> of the document.
> 
> As this is happening in all apps I'm assuming it's something within KDE that
> had changed.
> 
> I'm running an up-to-date Centos 7 x64 running the KDE desktop.
> 
> Anyone got suggestions on how I can get back the the old style (windows clone)
> behaviour and appearance?
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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University of Chicago
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