Thread: N900 kinetic scrolling
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Jamil is offline Jamil
2010-01-23 , 11:54
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#33
Originally Posted by villo View Post
Guys check out kinetic scrolling in QT Mobile Demo: HyperUI. Go into Menu>Phone>Contacts (you have to tap on the picture in the lower left hand corner). I do like how kinetic scrolling is currently implemented but I can't understand how it is even possible to have such a terrible frame rate on this device. Really horrible...

Yes, the a-z scrolling in HyperUI is great. And it could be implemented in Maemo 5 across all applications - and it has to be ALL apps! - by just devoting 20 pixels or so to the right of the interface ffr an a-z list or some other scrollbar-type thing that you can run your fingernail down (because using the fingernail is the best way to use the A-Z in HyperUI, I find).

But, I the easiest way to improve scrolling through lists would be to enable the arrow keys. This device has a keyboard - use it!

The up and down arrow keys would scroll normally and the right and left keys could be used to 'jump' 10 items or rows at a time.

Easy, no?
Last edited by Jamil; 2010-01-23 at 19:53.