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Title:
The humiliating struggle to click on the overlay scrollbar
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
About 50% of the times (it's not systematic), when you move onto the
right border of a window in order to click on the overlay scrollbar
and scroll it, it turns out to be almost impossible to click on it,
because the following happen:
- as soon as you reach the supposed-to-be scroll zone, the scrolling cursor
appears
- but as soon as you move just one more pixel to the right, it disappears
because the cursor changes to the window-resizing cursor
- when you click it's already too late and you are resizing the window
horizontally instead of scrolling it
- you retry again and again, in a pathetic, humiliating struggle, until
either (a) you do it slowly enough to capture the scrollbar cursor (I wonder
whether this has haver happened, actually) or (b) you click here and here,
change focus to different windows, go back to the original one, and it finally
start working as expected.
By the way, the normal behavior, which is at least decent, has its
downside too: it's difficult to horizontally resize a window from the
right size, because you have to "come in from the outside" (or
otherwise the scrollbar will appear when you want to resize the
window). Which reveals how badly conceived is the overlay scrollbar
concept from the very beginning. But at least that's usable once you
know it.
I'm not sure whether it's worth wasting human time fixing this bug,
when the only right thing to do would be to get rid of (or radically
re-think) the demential overlay scrollbars alltogether. However, if
that is not going to happen, then this must be fixed quickly because
it is a nightmare.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.12.0-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-34.55-generic 3.5.7.13
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-34-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins:
[core,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,snap,commands,place,resize,session,regex,grid,wall,move,gnomecompat,imgpng,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Mon Jun 17 17:28:20 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-23 (1090 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-01-13 (155 days ago)
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