Thread: Speed up the kinetic scrolling?
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mattbutsko is offline mattbutsko
2010-10-03 , 01:06
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Originally Posted by Matan View Post
Actually, search will not help at all, since this subject was not discussed much.

You might be thinking of the "[Announce] Faster kinetic scrolling in app menu (PR1.2)" thread, but that only changes scrolling speed in one place, so it is not really an answer to the posted question.

The answer is: Most kinetic scrolling widgets you see probably use hildon library for kinetic scrolling. This library is free software, so you could change global scrolling parameters by changing this library.
Could you help me locate this library, I'll do some googling but tend to have problems finding things like these. I have linux experience (Ubuntu and Debian for 2 years) but not a lot of N900 experience. Also, I did use that search yesterday, and did apply that .deb for the [Announce] you mentioned, which is nice, but as you said, it only improves it in the menu.

It just bothers me that the N8 is a weaker phone than the N900 yet the KS is soooo much smoother, that's kinda a big deal since we have to use kinetic scrolling in most cases.

EDIT: I did find a reference to HildonPannableArea, the maemo reference manual says it's a "scrolling widget designed for touchscreens", but I cannot find a way to edit that on my phone. I also checked a Hildon slideshow showing some of the new features of Hildon and one of those features were "Configurable kinetic scrolling", so I know it's possible. That, and we're dealing with linux here, so anything can be changed, right?
Last edited by mattbutsko; 2010-10-03 at 01:10.