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[cmaglothin <cmaglothin@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are rather mistaken when you say that there are no scroll bars in
Android/iOS/WP7. There are. These bars serve two very important functions.
The first is to denote the length of any item larger than your screen and
to show your position within said item. The second is, when an item is
sufficiently long, an overlay scroll bar that lets you speed through the
item, such as a list of music or a web page, faster than one would be able
to via kinetic scrolling. In this sense, the current Ubuntu scroll bars are
perfect for mobile use as long as it is paired with good multitouch.

With respect,
Cullen M.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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