Dan, I believe Paul describes the stock GTK+ scrollbars from elementary theme, not Ubuntu's overlay scrollbars. Look at the pic :)
Paul, we're aware of the problem indeed; Harvey (one of elementary designers) has already registered a blueprint for it and I've posted some initial ideas on the whiteboard to kick off the discussion. See http://elementaryos.org/journal/how-see-what%E2%80%99s-our-sleeves for more info about blueprints and why we use them. 2012/10/28 Daniel Foré <[email protected]> > Ah yes the current overlay scrollbars are indeed ugly haha. Who you want > to contact about the way to do this is probably Andrea Cimitan (*andrea*.* > cimitan*@canonical.com) who did Ubuntu's scrollbars. He would probably > know the best place to start regarding how to implement such a thing. > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Paul Aspradakis > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hey everyone, I am new here and I would like to bring this to everyones >> attention. Being a minimalist and a perfectionist on top I can't help but >> notice how ugly the scrollbars look as opposed to the rest of the elements >> of the window. >> Setting the width of the scrollbar aside the main culprit is in my >> opinion the fixed white background, here <http://i.imgur.com/X7qmA.png> is >> a mockup of what an ideal scrollbar could look like. >> Now someone on #elementary mentioned that if possible at all this would >> require GTK+ itself to be patched so I thought I'd put this here to get >> some feedback by developers. If this can be done and everyone agrees I'd be >> more than happy to work on it myself. >> >> P.S: I am a windows developer and have never worked in an open source >> project like this so forgive me if this is in the wrong place. >> > -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff OS architect @ elementary
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