Ubuntu
ubuntu-themes package

Overlay scrollbars are invisible against a selected element

Bug #828172 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas on 2011-08-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #765638: Improve scrollbar visibility on different colors. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu theme	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	ubuntu-themes (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Problem occurs with: light-themes 0.1.8.21, Ubuntu Ocelot
Does not occur with: Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.7

1. In Ubuntu Software Center, navigate to a category that has enough items to scroll, such as "Accessories".
2. Try to tell whether you are seeing the complete list.

What happens:
* You can't tell, unless there happens to be a partly-visible item at the bottom of the window.
* There is a scrollbar, but it consists only of a Windows-Phone-style sliver in the selection color. And because it's on top of a selected item, it's utterly invisible.

What should happen: Scrollbars should not use a single solid color, and/or their primary color should be very different from the selection color.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2011-08-17:

There is a scrollbar in this window. Can you see it? Edit (95.8 KiB, image/png)

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2011-08-18

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added: mptunity

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-10:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Benjamin Bach (benjaoming) wrote on 2012-08-01:

Same problem in both Ambiance and Radiance.

May I suggest the following solutions:

* Make a colour difference so the marker is clearly visible, even on top of a highlighted panel element.

* Make a margin between the highlighted panel element and the scroll bar.

* Ditch the puny scrollbar and make a solid and visible one. This would be an over-all improvement, as the scrollbar is often way too invisible. Some applications like Firefox and Thunderbird have their own scrollbars, even though using native widgets?

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) on 2012-12-25