Overlay Scrollbars use an overlay to ensure that scrollbars take up no active screen real-estate. A thumb appears magically when the pointer is in proximity to the scrollbar, for easy desktop-style paging and dragging.
The Ayatana initiative, lead by Canonical, is about designing for a more focused desktop experience. We balance the idea of "focus on the core task" with the idea of "awareness of what's going on around you".
This work, to produce a set of overlay scrollbars, is designed to improve the users ability to focus on content and applications. We are minimising the screen space that is devoted to "chrome", structural features which are not specific to the content at hand. We are aiming to retain the semantic or symbolic value of scrollbars - telling the user where they are in a document, or signalling that there is additional content, while reducing the waste of space and distracting clutter that a traditional scrollbar entails.
Project information
- Part of:
- The Ayatana Project
- Maintainer:
- PS Project Management Team
- Also known as:
- ayatana-scrollbar
- Driver:
- Ayatana Scrollbar Team
- Licence:
- GNU LGPL v2.1
View full history Series and milestones
trunk series is the current focus of development.
All code Code
- Version control system:
- Bazaar
- Programming languages:
- C
All packages Packages in Distributions
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overlay-scrollbar source package in Xenial
Version 0.2.17.1+16.04.20151117-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 uploaded -
overlay-scrollbar source package in Trusty
Version 0.2.16+r359+14.04.20131129-0ubuntu1 uploaded -
overlay-scrollbar source package in Precise
Version 0.2.16-0ubuntu1.1 uploaded -
overlay-scrollbar source package in Plucky
Version 0.2.17.1+16.04.20151117-0ubuntu5 uploaded -
overlay-scrollbar source package in Oracular
Version 0.2.17.1+16.04.20151117-0ubuntu5 uploaded
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #1167079: GtkScrolledWindow widgets (GTK3) have black or transparent backgrounds with Ayatana overlay-scrollbar
Reported -
Bug #1469683: Scrollbar overlay cross
Reported -
Bug #1210831: The overlay scrollbars are not touchscreen-friendly
Reported -
Bug #1443031: Parts of GTK3 apps become transparent with overlay scrollbars
Reported -
Bug #1436155: Overlay Scrollbars dot not work with WebKit2GTK+
Reported