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Re: Overlay scrollbars

 

Hi guys,

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Stefanos A. <stapostol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Two things I'd love to see improved (over the 12.04 video):
> (a) as, the OP suggests, hide the arrows quicker when the mouse moves
> away. This solves the resize vs scroll issue, and makes the GUI feel faster
> to boot.
>

We can definitely play with the speed of animations and delays to see if
this can reduce the conflict between the two operations.


> (b) make the arrows thicker to compensate. This has the additonal
> advantage of improving support for laptop touchpads and touchscreens.
>

During the session at UDS we showed another exploration we are doing that
is about adding a subtle friction to the horizontal movement of the pointer
when passing over the scrollbar and, very important, when its speed is
contained. While we are pleased with the results we just implemented it in
a dummy prototype, such feature requires lot of low level work and might
take some time to appear in the distro. If there is anyone who can help our
engineer, please contact Cimi.
Touch screen are not supposed to use the overlay scrollbars but should
scroll interacting directly with the content.


Thanks a lot for any feedback, chr

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