Hi All,
On modern machines smooth scrolling feels OK to me. However
I have no objections to reinstating an explicit preference for it for
2.6.3 as long as "someone" actually does the windows GUI programming
needed.
Cheers
Martin
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>
> In the process of debugging our weird scroll thing on Ubuntu [1], Sum1
> suggested I tried disabling smooth scroll. In googling on how to do this, I
> was rather surprised to see the sheer quantity of folks suggesting that such
> a disable is necessary for AbiWord to be "snappy" [2]
>
> As such, I'd like to float the idea of switching it off by default and/or
> bringing back a UI for the preference. I'd really prefer abi to be snappy
> in the default install, as I'd imagine we all do, and I'm curious to see how
> we can best achieve this.
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11539
> [2] http://www.google.com/search?q=abiword%20disable%20smooth%20scrolling
>
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