GSoC - Smooth Scrolling
Hi, just as a further idea for a GSoC project, let me re-forward to the list what I had written some time ago, where I couldn't see any comment. Perhaps this has slipped out of attention, or simply it's not of interest for anyone :-). Note that I would NOT volunteer as a mentor here, but someone else might be willing to do so, in the case... 2) smooth scrolling: when scrolling a LyX document up and down with the keyboard (through up, down, page-up, page-down keys, but also when occurring as result of moving right and left), the WorkArea may scroll smoothly from the current position to the new position. The problem with the current behaviour is that the view is changed abruptly, something that is not a problem for small moves, while moving across regular text. But, as soon as a table or picture or big equation comes in the loop, the position is moved a lot, causing visual annoyance. I heard especially Mac users to complain about how LyX scrolls up and down. They're a community particularly used to smoothness in general. They'll love such a feature. Note that while doing smooth scrolling, we should NOT be redrawing the whole screen all the time, but rather scroll it and redraw only the new visible. This feature may not be energy-saving for laptops, so allow for disabling it in preferences, or automatically disable it when on battery. Thanks, T.
GSoC - Smooth Scrolling
Hi, just as a further idea for a GSoC project, let me re-forward to the list what I had written some time ago, where I couldn't see any comment. Perhaps this has slipped out of attention, or simply it's not of interest for anyone :-). Note that I would NOT volunteer as a mentor here, but someone else might be willing to do so, in the case... > 2) smooth scrolling: when scrolling a LyX document up and down with the > keyboard >(through up, down, page-up, page-down keys, but also when occurring as > result >of moving right and left), the WorkArea may scroll smoothly from the > current >position to the new position. The problem with the current behaviour is > that >the view is changed abruptly, something that is not a problem for small > moves, >while moving across regular text. But, as soon as a table or picture or big >equation comes in the loop, the position is moved a lot, causing visual >annoyance. >I heard especially Mac users to complain about how LyX scrolls up and down. >They're a community particularly used to smoothness in general. They'll > love >such a feature. >Note that while doing smooth scrolling, we should NOT be redrawing the > whole >screen all the time, but rather scroll it and redraw only the new visible. >This feature may not be energy-saving for laptops, so allow for disabling > it >in preferences, or automatically disable it when on battery. Thanks, T.
