Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
Really interesting GUI in depth analysis, I mostly agree with you except
for the gutter being too big in scrollbars.
I feel that although wasting some space, this big gutter is useful,
since if it were smaller it would be difficult to use the scrollbars
with the finger or when the stylus is angled with the right hand and
touches the edge of the display frame.
The only trouble is, the gutter behaviour on the 770 & N800 is inconsistent
depending on the full-screen state of the application.
When an application (eg. File Manager or Opera) is not full-screen, there is a
thick ugly gutter on _both_ the left and right hand sides of the application.
However, when the application is maximised to full-screen both of these gutters
disappear.
So, if there *is* an argument for the gutters it should apply whether the
application is full-screen or not. But since the gutter behaviour is different
depending on the application zoom state, the presence or lack of the gutters
must be due to a poorly implemented widget feature. Given a preference my
choice would be to remove the gutters from the non-maximised zoom state since
these gutters waste valuable screen space and make the application look less
attractive.
And to further demonstrate how buggy the non-maximised gutters are, it's
possible to scroll a window (eg. list of files in the N800 File Manager) by
placing the stylus in the right hand gutter - seemingly all touch screen events
registered by the gutter are delivered to the adjoining scrollbar.
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