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Old scrolling bar? (Blue scrolling bar)
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Yeah, i haven't found a solution. As much as i hate the grey linen in OS X now, the gray scrollbar is not so bad just doesn't match the aqua, but least it's inconspicuous unlike the aqua one.
Still, Aqua is mostly here just with a lighter blue (which i hated at first) and annoyingly smaller close/minimize buttons at the top.
Honestly now that I've used the new scroll bar for over a year I can say I would never go back to the blue one. It's was way to big and visible. I like tht the new one is thin and only appears when you need it
Those "annoyingly small" buttons have the same clickable area as the bigger ones.
You can't set the old one to disappear when not using it. Maybe there's some 3rd-party software that does it, but not the OS itself. Via the Terminal, it's possible to force the use of the smaller sized scroll bars, but that's it.
Are you as sure of that as your assertion that the behavior of scroll bars in Lion/Mountain Lion is not different, just the appearance?
In Snow Leopard, the clickable area is, IIRC, slightly smaller than the actual size of the window widgets. It's possible to click the widget without triggering it. That's not possible in Lion/Mountain Lion.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to disparage your opinion on the changes Apple has made. I can understand why the changes could be unwelcome, but we need to be accurate on the information being distributed. I could be wrong on the clickable area of the window widgets. I tried to Google the subject, but couldn't get anything one way or the other.
Hugh: we're discussing, at this point, whether or not the scroll bars in Snow Leopard and earlier have the same disappearing behavior as the new scroll bars in Lion/Mountain Lion, which they don't.