Usability for slow hands

[niknah]

* For people with slow hands, or aren't used to the scrollbars. The scrollbars just disappear when you put your mouse over it after a few seconds. If you don't have a great aim and put the mouse slightly to the right, it disappears and you can't click it anymore.

* But if you're a good aimer and quickly go to the area where the scroll bar appears without going to the edge of the window, the scroll bar doesn't appear at all.

* The position of your mouse doesn't relate to the position on the page. You have to look to the little bar for the position which is sometimes not very visible and it can be confusing to be dragging one thing and looking at another. Say you start dragging the scrollbar from the "middle" of the window, at the "top of the page". The "middle" is now the "top of page". But if you move the scrollbar up a "quarter" of the window, the "quarter" position is now "top of page", it's a bit more work on the brain.

* There is no easy GUI way to disable it.

Search on google/bing for "overlay-scrollbars". Look at the first few pages. It's full of people asking about how to disable/remove it.

It's good that someone has tried to improve the scrollbar, but I've used this for a few years and I still can't get used to it.

[Xu Bin (xubincs)]

agree, the overlay scroll bar, I think, is not a good design for common desktop environments. To disable it I use the following command:
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
also, you can use the GUI of gsettings, i.e., dconf editor to disable it.