In Ubuntu 11.04 there is going to be a new kind of scrollbar called overlay-scrollbar. This is the Project Page: https://launchpad.net/ayatana-scrollbar I have written an ebuild for overlay-scrollbar which works fine for me so far. Exept there are some Applications which somehow use the old scrollbar, but that's not a huge Problem most likely just a settings weirdness, I'm going to investigate it. The only real Problem is, that this work also needs a patch in gtk+. For those wondering what it is: http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/introducing-overlay-scrollbars-in-unity/ Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 265497 [details] overlay-scrollbar ebuild
Created attachment 265499 [details] Needed gtk+ patch Patch is taken from the projects source.
Created attachment 265501 [details] gtk+ ebuild which applies patch
No modifications to gtk+ code will be accepted by us. Other gtk "extensions" manage to do incredible changes by loading gtk modules, I believe this should be done this way here too. It looks like it's the approach upstream intended, but they somehow failed to achieve it. Look at gnome-globalmenu project for example, or gtkparasite.
Ok. I'll keep monitoring this either way. Since this project is quite early in development maybe they will move away from patching gtk+.
Created attachment 266213 [details] overlay-scrollbar-0.1.2-r1 ebuild Added debug useflag
Created attachment 266215 [details] overlay-scrollbar-9999 ebuild Live ebuild for overlay-scrollbar
