On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 18:04 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> 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.
Disabling it by default would not be my choice. Adding the preference
back sounds like a smart thing to do though, as a lot of people seem to
run into it.
Marc
PS. Is smart scrolling ever a problem on win32? The only user-complaints
I've read are all about Linux systems.
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Ryan Pavlik
> > www.cleardefinition.com
> >
> > #282 + (442) - [X]
> > A programmer started to cuss
> > Because getting to sleep was a fuss
> > As he lay there in bed
> > Looping 'round in his head
> > was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
> >
> >
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