2011/4/11 Martín Soto <dons...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Mitja Pagon <mitja.pa...@inueni.com> > wrote: >> >> I see this scrollbars as another solution in search of a problem to solve >> and in the process introducing more problems than it solves. When will >> people realize that this is not the right approach to do things. > > The main advantage of the new scrollbars is that their real estate > consumption is essentially 0. This may feel as a minor change when you're > sitting in front of a 25" screen, but on my tiny notebook where every pixel > counts, the improvement is significant. So yes, there are still some issues, > but calling the scrollbars "another solution in search of a problem" appears > quite unfair to me. > > M. S.
In addition, the overlay scrollbars consuming 0 pixels in the layout resolves a pretty significant long-standing issue with scrollbars. In a lot of cases with old scrollbars, the addition of a vertical scrollbar forces the addition of a horizontal scrollbar because of the space now being given to that vertical scrollbar. In that same fashion, resizing a window with a scrollbar so that it no longer has a scrollbar requires that you resize past the necessary space as well as the extra space taken up by the scrollbar. This was actually happening to the installer slideshow: in a few cases Ubiquity ended up giving it a scrollbar even though, by the time the slideshow appeared to the user, it was given the right amount of space. (If it wasn't given a scrollbar in the first place, it wouldn't need one). So, there was very much a technical problem here now resolved :) Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp