Re: [9fans] scrollbar

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

> But why use a scrollbar?  Why move the mouse to
> any edge if all you want to do is to show a
> different part through a window?  Panning would be
> so much easier (especially if combined with
> increasing scroll/pan speed proportional to the
> distance travelled by the mouse).

i've run out of mouse buttons for panning in acme...  unless we do it
with alt+button :)

we could go with gestures too -- a clockwise circle with the mouse
scrolls up, counterclockwise scrolls down; the larger the circle the
more you scroll (or the faster you rotate the mouse :).

this will help touch-screen users since they won't have to hold up to
15 buttons at once while hitting the screen with the little pointy
pen.

andrey