[sugar] scrolling the journal list view (was Re: alt-tabbing to the Journal)

[Martin Dengler]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:20:56PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2008, at 11:34, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Eben Eliason wrote:

> >> The main problem here is potential length of the scrolling page.
> >> [...] we could introduce temporal section headers.  After
> >> scrolling far enough back in time, there might be sections for
> >> each month, and further back, for each year, etc.
> >
> > Yes, I like this idea and I think it's pretty much doable.
> 
> [...] the longer the page the smaller the scroll-bar, the more sensitive  
> it's movement, and the harder it is to navigate in a controlled,  
> refined manner.

We're not preparing kids for the real world:

  http://www.martindengler.com/tmp/journal2.jpg

(also an example of: what 1200x900 px can be used for; what temporal
section headers get chosen for me by the real world; and how sometimes
I've given up and created temporal sections myself)

> --Gary

Martin
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