Yet another post on "Kinetic" scrolling
Renato Filho has just uploaded a video to youtube showing the MokoFingerScrool object, developed by Chris Lord, integrated with his Maemo Myth application running on the N800 device. Cool stuff.
Monday, July 30, 2007
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Developers working on kinetic scrolling should agree on an algorithm and a gconf-key for the amount of damping & sensitivity; otherwise users will get confused by different apps having different acceleration etc.
Ideally, I'd love to see Gtk+ patched so that any background in a scrollable panel became a drag point with kinetic scrolling, but doubt that'll ever be done.
Cool to see it being used in another application so soon, good stuff! :)
@andrew: Personally, I don't think global settings would really work with this type of scroll widget - You want the speed to depend somewhat on the content inside the scroll (i.e. big long lists should get faster quicker and slow-down slower than smaller areas).
Also, these sort of fancy widgets are very special-purpose, standardising is a little overkill perhaps. My opinion anyway, I'm sure there are plenty of logical counter-arguments :)
One thing that appears to be missing in most of these demos is the correct alignment of the top-most list item when the scrolling stops. It should halt on the list item boundary. :-)
Jeff, you must have missed this:
http://codeposts.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-like-list-view.html
@Chris: perhaps, but you compare the speed of the scroll in this to the iPhone-like-list-view or UKMP and it's inconsistent.
That'd bug me as a user if I need a big flick in one application to move a certain number (or percentage) and only a small flick in another.
Blindly copying iPhone UI items without understanding the UI principles and cohesive, consistent UI which make the iPhone great will be a disaster (IMHO).
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