QML widget explorer

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 11:32:44 UTC 2012


On Monday 02 January 2012, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Monday, January 02, 2012 11:41:41 Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 January 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > * Yeah scrolling would be nice :-) Also the missing flickable behavior
> > > surprised me, though it is clear that it cannot work when there is a
> > > drag area.
> > 
> > a possible solution could be doing flicking and initiate a drag if and
> > only if the mouse cursor goes out of the window.
> > could be a bit confusing, even tough not a completely new behavior
> > (search and launch does a similar thing)
> 
> Wheel-scrolling would work anyway, and since this is a pretty much
> mouse/keyboard exclusive piece of UI, it should be optimized for patterns
> usually found with mice/keyboard. Being able to use the scrollwheel is
> pretty essential, I don't think people really expect flickable behaviour
> in desktop components.
> 
> Recap: The problem is that scrolling is hard right now, not that the
> flickable doesn't work b/c of the drag feature.
> 
> Same goes for the activity switcher, of course.
> 
> Cheers,

yeah, basically Flickable scroll horizontally only with the horizontal wheel 
(exists on touchpads, is not really used tough)

so would be needed a "WheelElement" in qtextracomponents i guess

-- 
Marco Martin


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