Re: Move across desktops

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Kaj-Ivar van der Wijst
<kaj-ivar vanderwijst com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I've been using lately the new way of navigating through the desktops, with
> the horizontal scrollbar instead of an overview of all the available
> desktops. I think this is a nice feature, even if I don't use it all the
> time. However, I think we need a better way of scrolling, better than having
> to click and drag the small scrollbar on the bottom of the screen.
>
> I'd suggest something like the iPod/iPhone interface way of scrolling: just
> click and drag the whole screen, and when you release the mouse (stop
> scrolling), it just moves a little further to simulate more real scrolling.
> We could use this horizontally AND vertically, so we can not only use
> desktops aligned from left to right, but also vertically stacked desktops, a
> bit like the 'desktops overview' where you can see all the desktops at once.
>
> I hope you understand my idea.

It would certainly be interesting to try this and see how well it works.

Jon