[Viewing] Mouse wheel scrolling behaviour
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:34 pm
This is a bit a feature request, but more a question and hopefully a discussion with other CintaNotes users...
I sometimes scroll extensively my list of notes with the mouse wheel but I realized I don't feel comfortable doing it, the scrolling movement is quite fast (impulsive) and I always feel I scrolled too much and I feel I missed reading a note. I'm not able to "realize with the eyes" how much the list scrolled. Maybe I have to experiment with the amount of scroll wheel movement system wide, but let's stay in CintaNotes... my problems are that: 1. notes have variable height (I made a suggestion about this) and 2. because of the wheeling, we always have an unpredictable view of notes, we may see a fragment of a note at the top of the viewing area, the same at the bottom, the experience is different if we have long or short notes, I feel like I don't know where to point my eyes to.
What's your experience? The viewing area and the notes are all rectangles, I can think a viewing area where the note at the top of the area (actually the upper border of a note) is always aligned with the top of the viewing area and then at least two or three different ways to scroll comes to my mind, a "precision" mode might be where one tick of mouse wheel moves the list up of one note regardless of its lenght but maintaining the alignement between note upper border and viewing area. Another way: let's suppose we see 3 full notes (A, B, C) and half (D) with the current viewing area, a mouse wheel scroll might scroll the list so that the first note not seen fully (D) would be the first after the wheeling with its top border aligned with the top of viewing area. I can come with other ideas and refine the suggestion but before... it's just me? my strange lunch of today? or do you think we might find a way to improve this? needed/uneeded? thanks for reading
I sometimes scroll extensively my list of notes with the mouse wheel but I realized I don't feel comfortable doing it, the scrolling movement is quite fast (impulsive) and I always feel I scrolled too much and I feel I missed reading a note. I'm not able to "realize with the eyes" how much the list scrolled. Maybe I have to experiment with the amount of scroll wheel movement system wide, but let's stay in CintaNotes... my problems are that: 1. notes have variable height (I made a suggestion about this) and 2. because of the wheeling, we always have an unpredictable view of notes, we may see a fragment of a note at the top of the viewing area, the same at the bottom, the experience is different if we have long or short notes, I feel like I don't know where to point my eyes to.
What's your experience? The viewing area and the notes are all rectangles, I can think a viewing area where the note at the top of the area (actually the upper border of a note) is always aligned with the top of the viewing area and then at least two or three different ways to scroll comes to my mind, a "precision" mode might be where one tick of mouse wheel moves the list up of one note regardless of its lenght but maintaining the alignement between note upper border and viewing area. Another way: let's suppose we see 3 full notes (A, B, C) and half (D) with the current viewing area, a mouse wheel scroll might scroll the list so that the first note not seen fully (D) would be the first after the wheeling with its top border aligned with the top of viewing area. I can come with other ideas and refine the suggestion but before... it's just me? my strange lunch of today? or do you think we might find a way to improve this? needed/uneeded? thanks for reading