Hi again.
Some of you might have already noticed, that the Adwaita theme has been updated recently. It now includes a full GTK2 port, replacing the old Clearlooks fallback. That's great in general, but seems to cause some issues with non-GNOME DEs.
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well, it's good news that default gnome3 theme finally have a gtk2 counterpart, but that's far as the fun things go, IMHO. I've never been a great proponent of Adwaita, I actually consider it to be rather on the ugly side (inconsistent, looking half-done, plus the issues you talk about), IMHO clearlooks, while oldish, looks waaay better and it has **normal** scrollbars. On that note, I googled a little and it seems there is an unofficial port of Clearlooks for GTK3:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Clearlooks-Phenix?content=145210
Maybe we can try that? As for greybird and similar -- well, it looks great (and unlike with Adwaita, I can see the designer(s) had put a lot of effort in every single detail), but IMHO it's not very good for long-term usage by your average fedora user.
Clearlooks is quite outdated. I would really welcome a port of Nodoka ;)
Greets Marcus