Overlay scrollbars obscure content in a maximised window

[John Rivers]

When overlay scrollbars pop into existence as the user mouses over them, they do not appear over the content the user is trying to view. Vertical bars appear to the right and horizontal bars appear below.

This is not the case with maximised windows, and the scrollbars will obscure the content in this situation.

[Welton Rodrigo Torres Nascimento (motoster)]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1 - Maximize a Naitulus windows;
2 - Change to list view (CTRL-2);
3 - Browse to a folder with such number of entries that you must scroll to view them all;
4 - Try to double-click the last visible entry.

RESULT:

It's impossible to double-click the item, because overlay scrollbars are on top.
This doesn't occurs on a non-maximized window, because overlay scrollbars are rendered outside of the window.

WORKAROUND:

Change to Icons view or use the keyboard.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this. The problem is not restricted to Nautilus but instead lies with the behaviour of the Overlay Scrollbar on a maximised window. I've adjusted the title, description and paper cuts target to reflect this.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Nick, could design take a look at this please?

[Edwin Lee (leeed2001)]

Where is the best place to watch for progress on this, it's a pretty annoying little thing! Thanks!!

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing the Nautilus task since this is a problem that affects any app using the Overlay Scrollbars.

[Evan Peck (colors)]

This still seems to be a problem in Quantal :(

[Edwin Pujols (edwinpm5)]

If it does not go against current design focus, I think that the orange bar could be made thinner (but still easy to see). Also I'm wondering the thumb could be made to appear via mouse pressure when the window is maximized, that is, in the same way you make the Launcher visible when set to auto-hide.

This may be a simplistic solution, I don't know if makes sense. The orange bar needs to be thinner (or to have a space of its own) because, at least currently with Gtk+ and stuff, it obscures content (e.g. it is drawn over the contents of gedit or evince); this is particularly bad when the content contains small artifacts next to the window borders (e.g. the related left-to-right languages bug).

The thumb being made visible via pressure I am not sure, but it would help with maximize window issue, not sure if it would introduce other more annoying problems.

[Edwin Pujols (edwinpm5)]

Edit: I mean the right-to-left written languages related bug: <a href="/bugs/808516" class="bug-link">bug 391777</a>

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

If you are experiencing this bug in any particular Ubuntu release, check its name is listed in the tag list.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Yes, overlay scrollbars should have an option to be turned off when the window is maximized.