To clarify the confusion here, by no means am I suggesting that we rule out MMB and have only scrollbars. We currently already have scrollbars, though not obvious (in appearance), they do perform similar functions. <br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Wahooney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wahooney@wahooney.net">wahooney@wahooney.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font size="-1"><font face="Tahoma">I believe that the proposed scroll
bars are more of an indicator that there is more to scroll to than a
replacement of the MMB functionality.<br>
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This assumption is based on William Reynish's talk at BConf.<br>
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<pre>On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:26 +1300, Joshua Leung wrote: </pre><blockquote type="cite">
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<pre>Are scrollbars the best option? One of the things I like about Blender
is the minimum mouse movement, and scrollbars are a step away from this.
Middle mouse button panning is sometimes the right option (when you can
already see the part you want in the centre of the screen) but sometimes
is not (when you want to scroll an area into view).
If the edge of an area could trigger an automatic scroll with a held
middle click, this would allow scrolling more of that side into view.
When the desired portion comes into view, the mouse pointer is still in
the right area to work on that rather than being at a different side as
scrollbars and middle mouse panning causes.
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