Re: Wheeled Mouse (eight-way scrolling)

[Dick Porter <dick cymru net>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 08:30:26PM -0000, Haukur Hreinsson wrote:
> [snip]
> >if my hand't on the mouse anyway, it's often easier to scroll using
> >the wheel than to find the scrollbar.  Up and down scrolling is more
> [snip]
> 
> I agree. Additionally, I find scrollbars just generally ugly because they
> destroy symmetry. They also take up space better used for content. Vertical
> and horizontal scrollbars for the same canvas are always a lame solution.
> You need to aim for and drag not one but two narrow and possibly very short
> scroll handles. There's gotta be a better solution. Are we using the third
> button for anything vital? Howsabout using it for scrolling in all GNOME
> apps (probably all gtk+ apps)?

Someone ought to take a look at ftp.x.org:/contrib/widgets/motif/joystick.tar.Z

It's a 2-d scrollbar replacement designed to look like a joystick. The code
looks very simple inside, and porting it to gtk shouldnt take more than an
afternoon (IMHO :-) ).

- Dick