On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 00:48 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote: > Hey :), > > On mié, 2012-02-01 at 23:37 +0100, Florian Müllner wrote: > > On mié, 2012-02-01 at 08:00 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > - Restricting kinetic scrolling to touch devices is correct, > > > experience-wise > > > > Is it? I don't think Windows 8's Metro interface limits kinetic > > scrolling to touch devices (but I may be misremembering here), and Allan > > explicitly mentions kinetic scrolling with mouse input[0]. > > To me it sounds like a desirable feature for non-touch input in some > > situations like missing scroll wheel or crappy touchpads. > > My feeling is that mixing interaction paradigms is a wrong thing to do, > kinetic scrolling inherently comes with its oddities wrt selection and > DnD, those are kinda expected and sorted out in a way or another on > other touch platforms, but bringing those changes to mice users may be > frustrating. > > A more generic principle I agree we should follow is direct > manipulation, in the case of scrolling: > > * On touch devices: the content follows your finger > * On touchpads: the content scrolls smoothly, proportionally to the > finger(s) movement/velocity in the touchpad [1]. Note that the synaptics > driver already does it's sort of kinetic scrolling itself. > * On mice: you move via the scrollbar
I've had those same discussions with Jon when we were discussing Scrolling [1] and, despite agreeing with you when we started the conversation, I think that we should at least have the ability to experiment with that behaviour for non-touch, if only to integrate with platforms that use kinetic scrolling with non-touch. Cheers [1]: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/Scrolling _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
