By taking up too much space I meant the size of the executable, in Mb, when the application is built statically. To use style sheets means the executable is capable of reading scripts, it makes the executable about 500Kb bigger which I can't afford (its in a radio without much flash). I've started to use my own QStyle but I haven't been able to figure out how to remove the arrows and give the other controls of the scrollbar their space, can this be done using a derived style?