[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 92831] Sidebar interferes with scrollbar.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92831

--- Comment #3 from Stefan Knorr (astron) <heinzlesspam@gmail.com> ---
"Infinite size" refers to the fact that if you go to the edge of the screen,
you can't get any further -- so no matter how much further you physically fling
your mouse, you can't miss an item that is to that side of the screen.
This is also called "Fitts's Law", as Jiggle said in comment 0. Fitts's Law is
commonly applied to important user interfaces items: the Mac OS menu bar, the
Windows Start button, the X button of fullscreen windows on Windows. (You may
notice that even while the graphic design of these items makes them seem as if
they don't extend to the edge of the screen, their clickable area actually
does. (The exception here is the Windows 95/98 start menu: it does not respect
Fitts's Law.))

In any case, scrollbars have been becoming less important for actual
manipulation since the advent of the mouse wheel, touchpad scrolling and
outright touchscreen. Now, in many cases they are rather used as indicators.

The proposed solution also seems to put cart before the horse: Instead of
putting an item that has been on the right ~forever on the left (the
scrollbar), it may be a better idea to rethink the position of the sidebar.

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