I just finished converting the Kagu kinetic scrolling selector to a widget that works in GTK instead of PyGame.

I've made some other changes as well, such as adding button captions and making the scroll stop with the top button aligned.



If you're looking for a good GTK scrolling input widget, go check it out:


http://tony.maro.net/ossramblings/kinetic.php

It's my first real widget for GTK, so don't laugh when you see the source

You're doing some awesome work (That Python keyboard looks awesome, too). You should definitely pitch this to the Minimo and MicroB projects. That would be amazing

Agreed. Having this in the browser would be amazing

I can't wait to have this in the browser!!

There's absolutely no overlap between this and the browser. The browser's C, this is Python.

This is just another implementation of the idea we've seen developed in EDJE (Canola 2), UKMP, Kagu and the port of OpenMoko's finger scroll widget.

Please, god, no.

What's with that reaction?

It's what I was thinking. What exactly is gained by this "kinetic scrolling"?

I mean: Other than eye-candy.

No, it's not about eye candy at all.

It's about easily scrolling with your fingers. Scroll bars are often difficult to drag with fingers. And often you want to keep scrolling with one motion. It's supposed to be intuitive. When you flick something in real life, you expect physics to kick in. Why not on a screen too?

But if you're really hard conditioned by scroll bars and mice, then it won't seem quite as intuitive at first.

The only overlap I could see would be the kinetic portion of it. The browser already acts like a kinetic scroll widget for the most part as you touch and drag any part of the page to scroll, instead of just the scroll bar on the right. The only difference is that you can't flick it.