On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> - Realtime scrolling so you can just grab, drag, and look as it goes past. > > Indeed. I have never been satisfied with the row-by-row scrolling, > but we couldn't do better in terms of performance before. In > redesigning the Journal, it was very important to us (to me, at the > very least) that smooth pixel-scrolling was part of the plan. Tomeu, > do you think we can make a transition like this for 9.1? I think it > would be another big boost to using the Journal.
Sure I think we should do something for 9.1, but right now the resourcing part is a bit complex. Maybe Scott can comment on this? > The main problem here is potential length of the scrolling page. Its > unbounded, except by space constraints, right now. There are two > viable options here that we've talked about. First, we could > introduce the notion of paging, so that after scrolling to the bottom > of a page in the Journal, you have (older) and (newer) buttons to get > to other results. > > Second, and my preference, we could introduce temporal section > headers. After scrolling far enough back in time, there might be > sections for each month, and further back, for each year, etc., with > each section being represented by a header only, and a disclosure > button. Clicking on a section would open it inline, closing the > currently open section, thus keeping everything in the Journal > temporally ordered on a single "infinite" page, but allowing one to > dive into it in any range of time. Yes, I like this idea and I think it's pretty much doable. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar