Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas

Kinetic Scrolling

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moonscapex:
Like the iphone or ipod touch, execpt with the scroll wheel on Sansa or Ipod.
Sounds fairly easy to implement.

Llorean:
It doesn't really make much sense to do it on a non-touchscreen device.

On a touchscreen, you can scroll the list and select the item. On the iPod you can just scroll the item, which means you're just throwing precision out the window.

JdGordon:
building a rocket ship sounds fairly easy to implement also...

cool_walking_:
Duplicate of http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=19095

soap:
The reason you have kinetic scrolling on touch screen devices is because you can not scroll more than one screen's worth of list without lifting and replacing your finger/stylus without it (or similar acceleration tricks).

On devices with scroll wheels you can scroll forever without lifting a finger and so it is not needed, and the decrease in precision it costs has no benefit outside eye candy.

There was a time when one could possibly charge the Rockbox development community with being anti-eye candy, but I think the last few years worth of (seemingly) rapid GUI changes can put that to rest.
While I think it is clear Rockbox is not anti-eye candy, the development team is definitely against eye candy which decreases usability, especially usability for the vision-impaired community.

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