If youre advocating that kinetic scrolling is better than scrollbars for very long lists, then youre either a fool, or you have a different definition of "very long list" to most people

Go load 2000 songs into one list in media player and then flick through to T using kinetic. That's an RSI disaster waiting to happen.


The suggestion of having a slim scrollbar, but having the app scroll like a scrollbar when the thumb is NEAR IT, NOT necessarily ON ITis the best one; it solves the problem for the screen-real-estate whiners. Take a look at a Nokia 5800; when you flick the middle of the screen in Contacts, it scrolls kinetically, when you thumb on the side, the scroll bar lights up to show you've grabbed it, and then you can scroll properly


Honestly, if kinetic scrolling was so amazing, it would have appeared on PCs years ago (you don't need a touch screen to have kinetic scrolling). It makes sense in the case of a touchscreen ui, but it does not form a sensible replacement for a scroll bar