Ubuntu
gtk+3.0 package

Use intuitive popup scrollbars

Bug #253546 reported by Kẏra on 2008-07-31

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to
	GTK+	Expired	Wishlist	gnome-bugs #530413
	gtk+3.0 (Fedora)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned
Declined for Intrepid by Brian Murray
Declined for Karmic by Pedro Villavicencio

Bug Description

This would just give Ubuntu more edge and make it even more intuitive. Although for people used to the old style scrollbar it may be intimidating at first glance, within a couple of clicks, it would immedately become another reason to get hooked on Ubuntu :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnXY4wjuH8
http://www.archive.org/details/popup_scrollbar
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/popup-scrollbar-concept-demo/

See original description

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Marcus Asshauer (mcas) wrote on 2008-07-31:

Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.

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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote on 2008-08-13:

From Ubuntu Brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8353/

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2008-11-04:

Marking as invalid for here, based on the first comment.

Changed in ubuntu-meta:
status:	New → Invalid

Kẏra (thekyriarchy) on 2009-06-27

description:

updated

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-06-27

Changed in gtk:
status:	Unknown → New

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-07-13:

the issue should be sent on bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody who has interest in this change to discuss with the code writters

affects:	ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote on 2009-07-15:

It has already been linked to upstream =]

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-07-27:

Thanks for sent it upstream.

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote on 2009-12-11:

Demo: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=149581

From upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530413

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2009-12-14

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)

Kẏra (thekyriarchy) on 2010-04-28

description:

updated

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in gtk:
importance:	Unknown → Wishlist

Alex Launi (alexlauni) on 2011-05-05

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Invalid

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Marja Erwin (marja-e) wrote on 2011-11-14:

I'd call this a bug. The visible-on-mouseover scrollbars introduced in 11.04 are slow, are unreliable, and are a usability/accessibility nightmare. The old-style scrollbars at least worked.

Suggested fix: open the software center and disable the new-style scrollbars.

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote on 2011-11-24:

Can we mark Ubuntu and gtk-2.0 (Ubuntu) tasks fixed now?

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2011-11-28

no longer affects:

unity

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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote on 2012-01-07:

#10

Is Unity using thes method?

Kẏra (thekyriarchy) on 2012-01-07

no longer affects:	gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
affects:	ubuntu → gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → Confirmed
status:	Confirmed → New
status:	New → Confirmed