I have to totally agree on all points with Ingo Ruhnke on his first post. These overlay scroll bars are completely useless. One of the problems maybe the programmer's are using a an old 100dpi mouse or something? As I find it almost impossible to mouse over or click on an overlay scroll bar. A lot of people have modern mice with 1200dpi on up to 4000dpi and beyond with monitors in the 3840 x 2160 range and beyond and the tiny fraction of a second the pointer tracks over the new "improved" scroll bar's few pixels is simply too little to make efficient page control.
I have patched every version of Ubuntu I have used to fix the overlay scroll bar issue since the "feature" was added. Its on almost every web site with things to do when you update Ubuntu ... To me when its that prevalent that fixing that "feature" is on all these lists of "things to do", it means that "feature" needs fixing. This needs to be listed as a permanent bug until some sanity returns on the scroll bar defaults. In my last update to 14.04 I gained another "feature" on the scroll bar bit to fix. That in the swapping of the single page click of the left mouse on the scroll bar's panel to go up and down by page which now does random page movements. The right mouse button now runs the regular page up or page down. Why this was changed I have no clue? I have not been able to find a patch that returns the mouse click scroll to the right buttons yet? Getting the scroll bar click arrows back would be nice too, but isn't as big a problem as swapped buttons or un-overlay'ing the scroll bar. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774098 Title: Overlay scrollbars are inconsistent and hard to use To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/overlay-scrollbar/+bug/774098/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
