Finger friendly scrolling - Was: [SHR] Miscellanious minor issues

[Steven **]

If done correctly, the scrollbar is the simplest(easiest to
understand) and quickest way to find a contact.  It is currently
extremely difficult to use the scrollbar in the SHR contacts app.
But, instead of making it always take up extra room, I would propose a
dynamic resizing.  Normally (when not in use) it's small like now.
But if the user touches near the right edge, it should "explode" into
a much bigger finger-friendly scrollbar.  Instead of just scrolling
the list, it would scroll one letter at a time (with adequate visual
feedback).  Then, when the user removes their finger from the screen,
the list will pop to the selected letter.

How does that sound?

-Steven

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Johny Tenfinger <seba.dos1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 19:37, kimaidou <kimaidou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> About the scrollbar, it is much to thin to be reachable with the finger. I
>> proposed an enhancement in the trac : make the right scrollbar twice (or 3
>> times) bigger, so that all soft needing it become more finger friendly
>
> In elementary (shr-settings), scrollbar is not reachable at all,
> because it is not supposed to. For me, scrollbar in contacts should
> look and behave like one from elementary, so I don't agree. It's only
> wasting of space, and there are better ways to navigate than scrollbar
> and finger scrolling (like alphabetic filtering in contacts etc.)