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Re: Kinetic scrolling: isn't deceleration too strong?

 

Hi,

I completely agree. A bug that has been already filed, you can put your
comments here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1348557

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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