Re: [Fwd: Re: scroll bar and drop down list usability]

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Fox <kfox@vulpes.com>
To: <johan@tiq.com>
Cc: <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: scroll bar and drop down list usability]


> Johan Hanson wrote:
> > Personally I prefer to drag with the middle mouse button in the
direction that
> > I want to travel over the common method of moving the document about
with a
> > hand.
>
> But that breaks the drag-the-object metaphor -- you'd be dragging
yourself.

Exactly. It's a different metaphor. Draging the object is fine except that
it's easier to scroll if you can do it with one mouse move rather than
``click, drag, move, click drag, move...''

--Ben

> I think a panner has the behavior you want. Would it work to switch
between
> thumbnail and full-size views in a panner, i.e. don't create a panner as a
> separate graphical element, but use the window itself as the panner?
Wasn't
> there something called a fish-eye-view that provided navigation like this?
> ...