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Ubuntu’s Overlay Scrollbars

by Jonathan Baker-Bates on May 28, 2011

It’s not often you get a radical change in the WIMP model, but the mighty Christian Giordano has tried just that with the introduction of “overlay scrollbars” in Ubuntu 11.04. Unfortunately, I think this is what might be called a “misfire”. The main problem is that in hiding the thumb of the scroll bar by […]

  • Tags: best intentions, critique, hubris, lbi
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