On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 09:50 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: > You've probably noticed this already, but I find it hard to grab the > 'bar' if my mouse is already in the trough. I have to move the mouse off > of the trough and then back on where the bar is. I know it's not > necessary to grab the bar, and also that one can drag after clicking an > arrow (cool!) but some users will expect that functionality anyway.
You can always just drag, so I don't see a problem there. I already use highlighting of the indicator on hovering the bar and a cursor change to encourage to not aim for the indicator. > The scroll arrows should have a timer for when they disappear. Some > users will move the mouse off of the trough by accident. Right now, the > arrows disappear and then reset at a different position. If the pointer > is moved straight back on, the arrows are centred around it instead of > one being directly below. Such a delay before a reset is already on my list. Other entries: - page-wise stepping on click-hold (switch to sliding on drag) - continued scrolling on hitting screen edges - additional horizontal version - drawing button areas all the way to the top/bottom to leave no doubt about target areas - better name (I'm using dynamic scrollbars now) - look into packaging deb/ppa I started to use bzr/launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/~t-w-/+junk/dynamic_scrollbar Current state is pretty dodgy, not useful for testing. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
