Re: [Ayatana] Variable rate scrollbars for continuous reading

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 June 2010 05:17, Gavin Langdon <puttabutta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 18:44, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Are there any other ideas? Have any of them been implemented?
>> Personally want a Gtk implementation =)
>
> Google Wave and Picasa have an interesting solution to dynamic loading and
> long items: Their scrollbars control velocity rather than position, for
> example if you drag very far down the scrolling is very fast and when you
> drag close to the initial position it scrolls slowly. A translucent bar
> indicates visually where you are with respect to the whole.
>
> There are also arrows on the widget to page up and down. It's hard to
> explain, but easy to comprehend once you try it out.
>

You are right about these. They did look funky to me but I didn't even
notice the real "physics" behind them, and I really don't recall
having problems with Wave & Picasa.

I wonder if this is possible in Gtk / Qt =)