Mavericks ruins navigation. Why did they eliminate the scroll bar?

Mavericks has ruined navigation. You can no longer color code files (except with tiny dots that appear far away from file names in the margin); the scroll bars sometimes appear. Sometimes they don't. Its very difficlt to grab window borders to resize the windows. What is the point of all this?

bemuse wrote:
Mavericks has ruined navigation. You can no longer color code files (except with tiny dots that appear far away from file names in the margin); the scroll bars sometimes appear. Sometimes they don't. Its very difficlt to grab window borders to resize the windows. What is the point of all this?
If you are using an old-style mouse, you might be frustrated. But with any recent pointing device the scroll bars are not really needed. I don't use the scroll bars much because...
I can scroll with my mouse scroll wheel
I can scroll with the trackpad built into all MacBooks
I can scroll with the keyboard using arrow keys, Page Up/Page Down, spacebar...
In other words, with all of these better and faster methods, having to move your mouse all the way over to the edge of the screen to pick at a scroll bar or little arrow is now a relic of the 1980s and is much less efficient than using the direct touch gesture or scroll wheel methods.
As for the window border grabbing, that is a compromise. If you enlarge the target area of the window borders, you reduce the target area for controls within the window or palette itself. The best solution for window resizing is to simply have a little patience, slow down until the resize arrows appear and then grab. Overall, window resizing is more flexible than it has ever been since you can grab any edge now, instead of just one corner as in the older OS Xs.

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