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Re: Unity Scrollbars with a touch screen are very hard to use.

 

On 03/01/2012 03:24 PM, Davor wrote:
Dana Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:44:09 +0100, Chris Woollard <cwoollard@xxxxxxxxx> napisao/napisala je:

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?

thanks
chris


Anyway - if Ubuntu want to take part in tablet-pad-phone --touch panel oriented devices - Unity must be suitable for fingertip area on 7 inch screens.

It means that user must, at least, have possibility to determine size of scrollbars, launcher and panel icons...


If we are going to build a Unity/Ubuntu phone, it won't contain overlay scrollbars, will it? Look at the iPhone/iPad/Windows Phone/Android devices. I certainly hope we are not integrating scrollbars in the Ubuntu/Unity phone! This would be one feature that would make me get a Windows Phone 7/Android/etc. I certainly hope that to scroll web pages/emails/etc on the Unity phone, that we will be scrolling by pushing content the way we want it to go, without scrollbars, just like iOS. Scrollbars just should not be on a phone, unless it has a huge screen, larger than an iPad. Then, I might see the use for them there. But still yet, it is better to have it the way users expect. They do not expect scrollbars on a phone. They expect to be able to scroll by pushing the content the way they want it to go, anywhere on the screen, not just on the side, trying to pull down on the scrollbar to scroll down. Thanks!!!

---Ryan


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