Re: RFC: Disable smooth scrolling by default

J.M. Maurer wrote:
> 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
>
OK, so it looks like it's preference time when I get around to coding it
on Windows - possibly not until I get back to the States. How about the
other platforms?
> PS. Is smart scrolling ever a problem on win32? The only user-complaints
> I've read are all about Linux systems.
>
>
I don't actually remember - I think it's much worse on Linux (as in, on
a 600mhz machine with Dapper, really, really bad), but I tend to be
cautious in drawing performance conclusions from VM experiences. I'll
know the answer better when I get back to a native Windows install that
I'll put 2.6.x on.

Ryan
>
>> 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
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>>> #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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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++;