Scrollbars in add widget ui

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 12 July 2010, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote:
> Hi Aurélien!
> 
> 2010/7/11 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau at canonical.com>:
> > I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from
> > Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch
> > is a first step at it, largely unfinished as I would like to know if you
> > are interested in getting this integrated before I finish it.
> 
> Scrollbars are good improvements. I'm just a little bit unsure that it
> may not work well with touch oriented interfaces (like the ones we
> tested plasma during Tokamak4). While scrollbars are great to give you
> an idea of "position" in the list, it doesn't work very well to
> actually scroll with the fingers.
> 

i would like to try the following thing (that i'm already doing in the netbook 
sal favourites):
scroll with an horizontal drag, start a drag event with a vertical drag.
the tradeoff would be that the drag event would need to begin after a way 
bigger dragged distance than now.

-- 
Marco Martin