Thread: can the '08 GUI be ANY crappier?
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2008-08-27 , 01:30
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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Not a scroll wheel for me; either a 1-d capacitive touch sensor (think touchpad, but 1d; or think iPod touch wheel, but unwound) or a group of buttons; say, wouldn't 4 buttons in a diamond over there be pretty dandy, either as alternate cursor keys (in a web browser, the d-pad could select links, and the 4-keys could scroll), or as auxiliary function buttons to perform... auxiliary functions, like jump, fire, etc.; wouldn't that be innovative?
Oooh.. that's a thought.. an iPod style touch scroll sensor on the right side or something. Just anything but having to block the screen with my big stoopid human finger or having to aim with the stylus and repeatedly wering out the right side of the my screen protector just to scroll things. Plus--less wear and tear than a scroll WHEEL. I can dig that.

Even better still is your suggestion of a 4-way diamond. I mean.. how much you wanna bet Firefox on the Pandora will make use of those joypads for that.. and it will be a WHOLE lot better than constantly touching the screen and a whole lot more ergonomic, given you just hold the dive and use your thumbs on either side the whole time.