I NEED Scroll Arrows

Darko,

While it's clear you do not need them, I do. And many other users do, too. Simply do a search for "scroll arrows" on these forums and you'll find quite a few users who use them quite frequently.

Obviously, WhiteHusky, I disagree with your assessment that Apple made the "right decision" to do away with them. One, why was there even a "decision" to be made in the first place? Were they really eating up THAT much screen real estate to deem a need to remove them?

But more importantly, why is there no option, at all, to add them back in if I so choose like there is with the "Show Scroll Bars Always." It seems such a simple thing to include them with the scroll bars when I choose that option from System Preferences. And wouldn't Apple assume if I'm choosing to show my scroll bars all the time that I would prefer to regain 100% of the functionality of the prior scrolling system, not just part of it?

If 90% of you Mac users have no need for them, that's great. But what of the 10% who DO? Are we simply relegated to do as Kiraly did and roll back to Snow Leopard, an operating system that will undoubtedly cease being supported in the near future?

"I know: but it is as easy to click on the scrollbar as it is on the arrow!"

Not when the scroll bar is buried behind another window.

I guess I never realized how useful I found it to be able to manipulate other windows without making them active...until it was gone.

Smoke,

I appreciate your reply. Yes, I often use the magic mouse to scroll inactive windows in the background, and better than half the time it works fine.

But there are times when a job calls for a sledgehammer and times when a job calls for a something more precise. Scrolling background windows with the magic mouse, particularly in Adobe CS5 software, can be imprecise at best, often downright clunky. If I need to quickly jump from page 1 to page 20 in a document, yes, the magic mouse works just fine. But if I'm trying to get the next line--and just the next line--visible, it's a chore of overscrolling, then scrolling back, only to overscrolling in the wrong direction, requiring further scrolling to get to that precise line. All that, when a simple, single click on the down arrow would do the trick.

Perhaps I'm talking Greek to those of you with no use for them, or those who consider questioning the design principles of the Apple software engineers blasphemy. And I'll agree, the windows do look cleaner without them.

But in my world--where form follows function, not the other way around--it's a step in the wrong direction.