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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

for desktop interface, don't forget about PageUp/PageDown. This is frequently used to scroll the page. Not having PageUp/PageDown in Dash brought my attention to how much it is used.

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:05:09 -0500
From: shrouded.cloud@xxxxxxxxx
To: cwoollard@xxxxxxxxx; unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Unity Scrollbars with a touch screen are very hard to use.

This is what gestures are for. Scrollbars are there primarily for notifying you of the length of a document and where you are in it. For touch screens, you have a scroll gesture (a flick or two finger drag to move content); for desktop interfaces (which Unity is designed for) you have a scroll wheel on mouses, two finger drag on touch pads, and the handle for if you just have an absolutely basic mouse from ages ago.

Ubuntu is not a touch OS. That, to me, seems like an edge case especially.
Thanks for reading!

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Chris Woollard <cwoollard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been testing 12.04 with a touch screen kiosk display and I have noticed that scroll bars in unity are extremely difficult to use as the point that you need to grab is very small, and is fingers are not particularly accurate.


Is there anything that can be done about this?
thankschris


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