translucent scrollbars for gtk

This is a hack I did last night to create a scrolled window for gtk that draws the scrollbars on top of the child gdkwindow. because you have to draw on top of the child, you have to do fun things to re-expose child areas.

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Science & Technology

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• GTK+

[Mystro256]

I like, but optional please ;)

I would use it on my netbook but not my desktop

[vwduder]

@Mystro256 no, it wont be optional. this is only being used for an app im writing for myself.

[Kailaner]

Why not use the overlay scrollbars from ubuntu? They're already working perfectly

[vwduder]

@Kailaner ubuntu has been trying to do what i did for over a year. they never got the translucency working. so, for my use case, its NOT working perfectly. 

[vwduder]

For my use case, all pixels are needed. I can see how others may not have that requirement though.

[vwduder]

I'm pretty sure that the design approach I've taken will be frowned upon by upstream Gtk. But it will get the job for my specific use case.

[anoprivacy]

Awesome! This is a really good idea! One thing bothers me a little: these scrollbars overlay content, this should be avoided. Maybe you can hide the scrollbars while not scrolling and put some indicators in the upper right/ lower right corner to indicate, that there is something scrollable.

But very great work! I love this design and can't wait for this!

[sbillaudelle]

Please propose this as a patch to GTK! That would be awesome!

[scionicspectre]

I was actually taking a look at Lion today and noticed this. I don't see exactly why people are comparing these to Ubuntu's implementation, to be completely honest. They seem quite different.

[W0Rd0n32sTre3T]

@scionicspectre OS X used the scrollbars from its mobile counterpart, iOS.

[tdenholm]

This looks fantastic! If only there were an application like this bundled with GNOME; free of distractions and tailored to the task at hand. I really hope you persist with this (I know you're writing it for yourself) and there's enough interest that some other developers give you a hand!

[Mystro256]

@vwduder Oh sorry, I thought it was going to become a part of GTK/GNOME ;P

[shotangone]

"Re-expose child areas" lol...

[Danielfore]

@Kailaner because Ubuntu's look like crap and they have that annoying "thumb" thing. These seem to be implement "the right way".

[fitoschido]

It is really STUPID to depress because of comments. Regardless from where the scrollbars came from, this is very slick and you deserve many kudos!