So the contacts aren't scrolled until you press the scroll bar, move to the desired letter, and let it go? I think it's a great idea. It gets rid of the sluggish scrolling that's a real nuisance in SHR (and other distros).
2009/1/29 Steven ** <montgoss+openmokocommun...@gmail.com<montgoss%2bopenmokocommun...@gmail.com> > > If done correctly, the scrollbar is the simplest(easiest to > understand) and quickest way to find a contact. It is currently > extremely difficult to use the scrollbar in the SHR contacts app. > But, instead of making it always take up extra room, I would propose a > dynamic resizing. Normally (when not in use) it's small like now. > But if the user touches near the right edge, it should "explode" into > a much bigger finger-friendly scrollbar. Instead of just scrolling > the list, it would scroll one letter at a time (with adequate visual > feedback). Then, when the user removes their finger from the screen, > the list will pop to the selected letter. > > How does that sound? > > -Steven > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Johny Tenfinger <seba.d...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 19:37, kimaidou <kimai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> About the scrollbar, it is much to thin to be reachable with the finger. > I > >> proposed an enhancement in the trac : make the right scrollbar twice (or > 3 > >> times) bigger, so that all soft needing it become more finger friendly > > > > In elementary (shr-settings), scrollbar is not reachable at all, > > because it is not supposed to. For me, scrollbar in contacts should > > look and behave like one from elementary, so I don't agree. It's only > > wasting of space, and there are better ways to navigate than scrollbar > > and finger scrolling (like alphabetic filtering in contacts etc.) > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >
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