On 11 Oct 2008, at 11:34, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Eben Eliason > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Gary C Martin >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> - Realtime scrolling so you can just grab, drag, and look as it >>> goes past. >> >> Indeed. I have never been satisfied with the row-by-row scrolling, >> but we couldn't do better in terms of performance before. In >> redesigning the Journal, it was very important to us (to me, at the >> very least) that smooth pixel-scrolling was part of the plan. Tomeu, >> do you think we can make a transition like this for 9.1? I think it >> would be another big boost to using the Journal. > > Sure I think we should do something for 9.1, but right now the > resourcing part is a bit complex. Maybe Scott can comment on this? > >> The main problem here is potential length of the scrolling page. Its >> unbounded, except by space constraints, right now. There are two >> viable options here that we've talked about. First, we could >> introduce the notion of paging, so that after scrolling to the bottom >> of a page in the Journal, you have (older) and (newer) buttons to get >> to other results. >> >> Second, and my preference, we could introduce temporal section >> headers. After scrolling far enough back in time, there might be >> sections for each month, and further back, for each year, etc., with >> each section being represented by a header only, and a disclosure >> button. Clicking on a section would open it inline, closing the >> currently open section, thus keeping everything in the Journal >> temporally ordered on a single "infinite" page, but allowing one to >> dive into it in any range of time. > > Yes, I like this idea and I think it's pretty much doable.
Yes, I do like this. This also resolves the issue as found in regular desktop UI controls (and current Journal implementation), for where you have long a document and try to use the scroll-bar for navigation – the longer the page the smaller the scroll-bar, the more sensitive it's movement, and the harder it is to navigate in a controlled, refined manner. --Gary _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
