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ubuntu-ui-toolkit package

Scrollbar should match overlay-scrollbar style.

Bug #1277030 reported by Robert Bruce Park on 2014-02-06

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

qml apps on the unity7 desktop don't scroll very well, they technically have a scrollbar but it's non-interactive, and doesn't match the overlay-scrollbar style of gtk and qt apps (instead of being bright orange, it's faint, dark grey, barely noticable, and hides while not actively scrolling).

Requiring desktop users to click&drag scroll makes for quite an inconsistent desktop experience and should be fixed.

This is blocking a decent webapps-container experience on the 14.04 desktop.

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Robert Bruce Park (robru) wrote on 2014-02-06:

spot the scrollbar in friends-app (it's there! barely!) Edit (203.1 KiB, image/png)

Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan) on 2014-11-17

affects:

ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-ui-toolkit

Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan) on 2014-11-24

Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Confirmed

Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan) on 2014-11-24

no longer affects:

ubuntu-ui-toolkit

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote on 2016-02-04:

Although they don't adhere to the setting, desktop-friendly are supported in QML apps now.

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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote on 2016-10-07:

Hi Robert, I implemented the new scrollbars a few months ago.
Can you have a look and confirm if the new scrollbars fix your problems?

(I'm not sure I understand, from the description)

The Scrollbars I implemented are for Qt apps that use the Ubuntu UI Toolkit

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Robert Bruce Park (robru) wrote on 2016-10-07:

Seems fine I guess? I tried to confirm with address-book-app and messaging-app, but on my desktop I wasn't able to get either of them to have a scrollbar (I can neither add contacts nor send messages, so both apps just show an empty, scroll-less window). webbrowser-app at least displays a real scrollbar that I can interact with, unlike what it did those years ago when i reported this bug.

Thanks!