In Windows, during left-click dragging a scrollbar, one can just revert the scrollbar position to start-of-dragging position by moving the cursor perpendicularly away from that vertical or horizontal scrollbar. This feature enables one to just take a look at different pages of current document without risking losing current scroll position. But in KDE, there is no way to revert it back to start once scrolling begins.
Reverting a scrollbar to start-of-dragging position can be done as it is done in Windows or it can be done by clicking right button while left button is pressed to drag the scrollbar.
It will be very convenient if developers can implement such a feature. I think that it only requires a few lines of code — not much work needed.
wouldn’t this have the unintended behavior of letting go of the scroll bar unless you have the manual dexterity to drag it strait down within whatever invisible narrow channel is defined as the scroll bar gully?
venture too far away from the scroll bar and everything snaps back like a rubber band
In Windows, when a scroll bar snaps back, we can set it to current scroll position by moving the cursor closer perpendicularly again if we did not release the left button. So everything is under control and there is nothing to worry about.
so you could scroll down to a different part of the document, and while holding the left button, slide away from the scroll bar and get a “peek” at were you were without losing your new scroll position?