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[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I completely agree, we need some serious tweaking on the kinetic scrolling
and we should be looking to iOS/Android as the standard that we should be
aiming for. I think we're close, but not there yet.

Jim

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Marco Trevisan <marco.trevisan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When scrolling long pages or lists in my Ubuntu phone it feels like that
> the content is too "heavy" and hard to move up and down with a single
> finger movement.
>
> So, if - for example - you want to quickly scroll your twitter timeline
> it really needs lots of gestures and movements in order to be able to
> move between big chunks of tweets; and this is, honestly, quite annoying.
>
> What I think is that the current default kinetic deceleration/friction
> values are too strong, and thus it's impossible to just quickly swipe
> the finger in order to get a quick scroll with a reasonable momentum, so
> that it's not needed to swipe again in order to continue the scrolling
> movement.
>
> Has been there some user testing in order to find better values for
> this? I think users coming from other platforms might find this an
> unexpected behavior.
>
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