Comment 16 for bug 1493964

(In reply to Marco Trevisan (Treviño) from comment #13)

> Mh, actually I think that overlay scrollbars don't interfere with terminal,
> if they're implemented correctly. In other apps the space that is used by
> overlay scrollbars is still reserved for them, although they're not visible.

I don't think I'm following you. In the video you linked the scrollbar overlays the word "chaotic", just as in Ubuntu versions up to Vivid. What did conceptually change?

Are there perhaps several pixels reserved for the scrollbar only, and several other pixels as the overlay area?