Re:A new wave of Linux applications
by bityard on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:41PM
(#30365403)
Genuinely curious what you do when you have to navigate a long document or page that doesn't have a clickable table of contents. If you're at the top and you need to get somewhere close to the bottom, do you just sit there and flick the scroll wheel for 5 minutes?
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Page down?
Alt + Scroll in my text editor
Middle Click -> Scroll on the web
Page Up/Page down everywhere else
Re:A new wave of Linux applications
by ironmagma on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:02PM
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Three different answers. How is it not obvious that this is a problem with a simple, universal solution?
Four including clicking and dragging a widget
Re:A new wave of Linux applications
by ironmagma on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:41PM
(#30369294)
I think you mean hovering to get the widget to appear, going to click it and having it auto-hide as your cursor is on the way, then hover again, repeat 2 more times, then finally be able to click and drag the widget.
I know it's a joke, but I feel some people take this kind of thing seriously. Yes, improving stuff can break other stuff, but that doesn't mean we should never improve anything, it just means the devs (and PMs if applicable, probably not in the Linux world) need to have a feedback pipe coming from users to let them know what the consequences of the changes are.