<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Clare Johnstone</b> <<a href="mailto:claregj@gmail.com">claregj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 7/15/07, Joe Friedrichsen <<a href="mailto:pengi.films@gmail.com">pengi.films@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>. We have a *touch screen* folks! Why use a widget that was<br>> made to replace tactile interaction when the whole screen can be a
<br>> widget? Seems like a little overly zealous retrofitting. . . This<br>> carburettor will fit on the electric car, dag nab it! ;-)<br><br>quite, Acrobat does it,<br>But even better my laptop has a synaptics touchpad,
<br>and Seamonkey can make use of it. stroke up and down the<br>right side to scroll the web page, stroke across the bottom<br>to zoom or unzoom.<br>(But it is a bit sensitive, I hate the thought of accidentally<br>dialling someone due to a slight tremor of my finger.)
<br><br>clare<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list<br><a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community">
http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</a><br></blockquote></div><br>the only down side I see to this is fixing all the OE apps that use scrollbars... that said, I really like this idea from a UI standpoint... it's easier to make circular motions with your fingers than straight lines, scrollbars work good with a mouse since it's easier to move in straight lines with one.
<br><br>we need a way to select which on-screen item to scroll if there's more than one (for simplicity's sake this should be a rare occurance... but web sites love scrollable elements). but it should be really easy to switch from hand to hand... just have a right and left mirrored scroll widget, and skin that bottom bar so it can exist either on the left or right hand side of the screen... there should be a way to make the spinner minimize... it does eat a lot of screen resolution... I'd try it but before I got Qemu working, X kind of ate it on my box, and I've been confined to the windows laptop I get from work... they won't even let me set it up to dual-boot
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jeff<br>O|||||||O