[maemo-developers] Using the scrollbar on the N810

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Richard Booth wrote:
> Thanks for reply. Yeah I know you can use dpad and space bar, I used
> to use the N800 this way. Though I find if I'm browsing a bookmarked
> site on the N810 I don't have the keyboard open to use the dpad, and
> want to use the screen for scrolling, but it's awkward. 
> 
> However I'm living with it, actually switching off screen tap sounds,
> so I don't hear the machine gun click when using the scollbar, helps, as
> I'm not reminded off it, unless the scrolling goes the opposite way.

"Machine gun click"?

You said earlier that:
 > If I try to grab the bar with the stylus and scroll down I can end up
 > leaving the scroll bar behind, with a series of clicks and sometimes
 > the scrolling goes the opposite way.

I.e. you're really getting multiple stylus taps *while* dragging
the stylus?  We had that kind of an issue in the Os2008 Beta, but
AFAIK it should be fixed in the final OS2008 release (50-2).


	- Eero

> Anyway it seems you guys at Nokia are aware of it, if you can improve
> the scrolling for a future OS release that would be great. I've added
> my bit to bug 2961.
> 
> Cheers
> Richard
> 
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:54:52 +0200
> Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure whether this helps, but you can scroll the page with
>> long-press of the down key in keyboard.  Short press moves just to
>> next link.