Ayatana Overlay Scrollbars get new gorgeous effect

Submitted by razvi on October 8, 2011 - 23:40

Another interesting update has just hit the Ayatana Overlay Scrollbars' PPA, bringing a new fancy effect.

We presented the new extended proximity area few days ago, and, now, in this new version (when you hit the edge of a window, the thumb appears with the regular grey scrollbar that acts like an expansion, starting with the main orange scrollbar and ending with the thumb) when you release the thumb, the grey scrollbar has a nice retracting effect.

"To further reduce visual clutter (floating thumbs appearing too often), a smart timeout waits before showing the thumb, but when it's close to the screen edge, it respects Fitts' law and is immediately revealed".

How do we install Ayatana Overlay Scrollbars 0.2.11?
Add the following official PPA (Oneiric)

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ayatana-scrollbar-team/release

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install liboverlay-scrollbar-0.2-0

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