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Ubuntu Unity has some neat tricks to make scrollbars more usable [1]. Instead of requiring users to hone in on the up/down arrows or the "thumb", hovering anywh
by moonboots 14y ago
Ubuntu Unity has some neat tricks to make scrollbars more usable [1]. Instead of requiring users to hone in on the up/down arrows or the "thumb", hovering anywhere near the scrollbar brings up a widget that compactly encapsulates all this functionality. I don't care for Unity enough to start using it day to day, but this feature struck me as clever though radical.
- streptomycin 14y agoWait, that's supposed to be more usable than the status quo?
- idleloops 14y agoLooks like you can't determine the length of something like a web page with the unity scroll bar.
- floomp 14y agoThe scroll bar's size is still proportional to the document length, so I don't see why you couldn't.
- idleloops 14y agoAha perhaps it wasn't so obvious from the videos I viewed. I did notice that a few people were quite desperate to turn off the unity scroll bar while on my travels looking.