Feature suggestion: touch-scrolling strip

[Mehrdad Momeny]

Hi Jason,
That seems like a cool idea, thanks for sharing it.
But while the rest of Choqok GUI is not touch friendly, I think it will be
a redundant thing to have.

Regards,
Mehrdad


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenhoe86 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a touchscreen device, and one afternoon some time ago now I decided
> that I wanted to be able to scroll choqok with my fingers without having to
> try to micromanage the scrollbar. So I hacked something together using
> FlickCharm (
> http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2008/11/15/flick-list-or-kinetic-scrolling/)
> that replaces the scrollbar with a wide strip that can be scrolled with a
> finger. Only the strip is scrollable so the post widgets are still
> interactable in the normal way. I made a video:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8m2RClhcRY
>
> So far I've been happy to have it, so I'm wondering: do you think it makes
> sense to integrate this into mainline choqok, maybe as a config option that
> can be toggled on/off? I know that the more ideal way to address
> touch-friendliness is probably to rewrite the choqok UI in qml or
> something, but I figure until then this is nice to have for touch screen
> users like myself.
>
> What do you think? If this might be good to have I'll go and tidy up my
> patch and make a review request :)
>
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> http://yuenhoe.com/
>
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