[Bf-taskforce25] View 2D API - Proposal

[Wahooney]

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.

This assumption is based on William Reynish's talk at BConf.

Domino Marama wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:26 +1300, Joshua Leung wrote:
>
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>> This afternoon, I've written up a doc in the wiki about issues
>> regarding the View2D-API:
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/View2D
>>
>> - Is there anything to add, change?
>>     
>
> 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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