Known issues with Scrollbar Linux

THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE

A few of the issues that should be fixed before "beta" release:

1. No setup for adding the live user's dotfiles to other new users
2. Background images baked directly into ISO rather than packaged
3. Some reduntant themes and images
4. Desktop icons are a mess
5. Installation process is not tested.
6. Nodepad Next's find-and-replace dialog is broken with the default window manager (upstream issue)

Known issues with Scrollbar Linux

Some videos do not play correctly

I live in a jurisdiction where common video formats are patent-restricted, so I have disabled several CODECs to comply with the law. If you live in a jurisdiction without software patents or hold a patent licens, simply remove the -dummy packages I have created and replace them with their equivalents from upstream Debian. My current way of disabling things may not be the least disruptive way of keeping my ISO compliant, but revisting this is not top of my to-do list (yet).

Firefox doesn't have native scrollbars

I've tried several tutorials without success. I'd love to see the Mozilla CEO make several key contributors pay for their high crimes against theming by backing slowly away from the keyboard with their hands up and never make another commit, but it's not happening.

Some other applications have non-native scrollbars too

This is libwebkit2gtk at work. Similar to situation to Firefox except that I'm not done trying workarounds yet.

Some icon themes are missing in the theme manager

xfce-theme-manager has a bug where it does not show theme folders that contain both icon and cursor themes of the same name. I should submit a patch. Until then, you can pick those icon themes with Appearance, and you can still use the theme manager to save the current settings as a new theme. On the other hand, the theme manager doesn't do well saving desktop background choices that were not made in it. More problems may await discovery!

Some themes look funny in the theme manager... or elsewhere

A polished theme won't make you think about this, but the appearance settings for old and new applications are entirely separate. Scrollbar Linux uses mostly applications build on newer frameworks, but xfce-theme-manager is still built on gtk2. The plus side is that you can see how a given theme will behave on old applications. The downside is that some themes only exist at all for older gtk2 or newer gtk3 or are better on one than the other.

Some icons are blurry.

This happens when only a low-resolution version of an icon is available. If you see it on a single icon, report it as a bug, but some whole themes were built for older computers with smaller screens and have 32x32 icons (the Windows 3.1-2000 standard) but nothing for XFCE's default 64x64. You can fix the desktop with Settings→Desktop→Default Icons→Icon size and the file manger with View→Zoom Out.

Unfortunately, there's no hidden setting to redefine what "Normal size" means. If you want to make a permanent commitment to small icons, the icons sizes for different zoom levels are hard-coded in the xdg-desktop-portal-kde block of thunar/thunar/thunar-enum-types.c

I can't type path names directly into the open dialog

Press Ctrl+L to get a text field and start a petition for whoever designed such a non-visually-discoverable interface to switch to designing secret-agent gear and never again touch software normal people have to use.

I can't click minimize-all from the very corner of the screen

This is a deficiency of several GTK themes. I plan to fork them to fix it. In the meantime, phenix-clearlooks doesn't have this problem.

For Windows 7 addicts

Windows+Arrow doesn't tile windows

Devuan uses Windows+Numpad instead. This makes everthing a single key combination rather than some tiling locations requring a sequence of arrows, but it has the downside of not working well if you're on a laptop without a dedicated numpad. Until I come up with a quicker fix, go to Settings->Window Manager→Keyboard to link tiling to your personal-favorite key.

You can't type to search the start menu

XFCE provides both Windows 95 and Windows Vista+ style start menus. I currently have the old-style one enabled since you can also launch applications by typing after pressing Alt+F2. Switching to the new-style start menu is easy but requires several clicks: Right click the start menu and select Panel→Panel Preferences→Items→Add→Whisker Menu→Add. Select it in the list an use the up arrow to move it lest. Then select the Applications Menu it replaces and click Remove.

The office suite doesn't have a tab strip

Change it to taste with View→User Interface→Tabbed