maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - [Canola] (Request) New methods of scrolling?

	hhedberg	2009-03-13 , 07:03
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Originally Posted by Cadabena

Whilst there's no denying Canola's amazing interface and usability, there is one feature I would like to request. I have over a thousand songs on my card, and scrolling down the list of all tracks takes a few minutes and gives me a very sore finger. What I'm thinking, is maybe a normal scroll bar taking up, say, 50-100 pixels on the right hand side of the screen to go to a part of the track list, then use kinetic scrolling to find the exact track. It would save a lot of time, and also save excessive frustrating finger flicking.

Mauku uses finger gestures to boost scrolling as follows:

- Move to the left and up: Scroll all the way to the top

- Move to the left and down: Scroll all the way to the bottom

It makes easy, for example, to jump back to the beginning of the list after reading some older messages.

I have also pondered to implement a scroll bar that appears while finger scrolling. Currently, there is a small position indicator that is visible after scrolling has started and hides after some time of inactivity. However, an user could use that indicator as a scroll bar too. That way there would be a real scroll bar to be used as a quick way to jump into middle of the list when needed, but it would not take any screen estate while not in use.

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