Andreas Raab wrote:

>... eeeek! who added these *ugly* horizontal
>scrollbars to the browser lists in 3.7??? ...
>

Well, they look identical to the vertical scrollbars, so whether you 
think they're ugly depends on what you think of the vertical ones. ;-)

Although if you have the scrollbars set to flop-out mode, there are 
problems with the horizontal scrollbars drawing behind buttons in the 
browser windows, so I'd agree that's kind of ugly.  Steven Swerling 
mentioned something about fixing that...

Steven Swerling wrote:

 > Reading between the lines on a recent post, I couldn't help but 
wonder if a
 > "alwaysHideHScrollbar" preference might be a popular idea. If so, it can
 > easily be arranged.

I think this would be good.  I could see that some people would rather 
not bother with them and have lists display the way they used to.  Also, 
it's a good temporary workaround for the problems with the flop-out 
horizontal scrollbar.  I'd make alwaysHideHScrollbar default to false.

(Technically, this should be a three-way preference, combined with 
alwaysShowHScrollbar.  It could be implemented with radio buttons, like 
the morphic/halos preference.  Although if you don't want to fuss with 
that, a regular pref would be fine.)

- Doug