Calibre Scrollbars

[danellender]

Hello everyone. I absolutely love Calibre and use it every day. But the scrollbars in the main window are very thin and even with my tablet pen, they're hard to use.

Is there any talk of making them adjustable in width? I can do this in Firefox, for example, but Calibre gets frustrating sometimes for this one very small reason.

Let me know!

[Dr. Drib]

Moved out of the General Discussion Forum and into the Calibre Forum, because this is about.....calibre!

Don
(Moderator)

[theducks]

Try changing and see which feels better

Preferences: Look and feel: Interface style

[gbm]

Originally Posted by danellender

Hello everyone. I absolutely love Calibre and use it every day. But the scrollbars in the main window are very thin and even with my tablet pen, they're hard to use.

Is there any talk of making them adjustable in width? I can do this in Firefox, for example, but Calibre gets frustrating sometimes for this one very small reason.

Let me know!

Try using TouchMousePointer.

TouchMousePointer is a Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (or later) program for use on Windows tablets or convertibles with touch screens.

Windows 8.1, Windows 10 touch screens, especially on tablets, do not work well with many standard windows programs and websites; especially those that use roll-over effects like menu buttons and tool tips. Resizing Windows and scrolling is frustratingly difficult on Windows tablet touch screens and small icons and buttons often require the use of a stylus and even then they don't always work as they should.

TouchMousePointer solves all these problems by making your touch screen into a track-pad that controls a standard cursor. At last your Windows tablet has a cursor and you can position it exactly where you need to have it - without your finger blocking the target - and mouse roll over effects work perfectly on menus and buttons of all Windows programs and websites.

Install this small, free program and you'll be able to use your Windows tablet much more efficiently with no stylus. You can customize it in a number of ways to suit your own preferences.

bernie

[kovidgoyal]

Not to mention that the main window supports scrolling using touch gestures -- flick to scroll.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by danellender

Hello everyone. I absolutely love Calibre and use it every day. But the scrollbars in the main window are very thin and even with my tablet pen, they're hard to use.

Since support for touch gestures was added in version 3.5 I'm guessing it may be time for you to update calibre.

Release: 3.5 [28 Jul, 2017]

New features

• Server: Add a new 'custom' mode for the book list, where you can specify exactly what metadata fields are displayed, via a template (see Preferences->Sharing over the net->Book list template)
• Speed up HTML parsing by an order of magnitude, by switching from html5lib to html5-parser
• Add support for touch screens to the main calibre book list. You can now flick to scroll, tap to select and double-tap to view books.
• Server: Add an option to ban IP addresses if there are too many failed login attempts
• calibre-debug: Change the --explode-book action to only create the exploded directory and not rebuild the file. Add a new --implode-book action to rebuild the file, separately.
• Book details panel: Add Manage authors/series/tags/etc. to the menu when right clicking on the item
• Kobo driver: Update for new firmware

[danellender]

Flick and scroll works for me. Thanks!