Ah, excellent idea. Hand cursor == small gameboy like joypad thingy, right?

Hmm, I wonder if Qt supports it? :-}

Hmmm, I'll probably just make it an option in the menus to turn off the scrollbars (combined with the idea someone else here brought up: make the menubar a toggable item, not visible all the time)

Bye, Simon

This probably needs a hack of Qt.

Another idea is to make scroll- status- and tool-bars auto-hide, like the taskbar in Windows and the Panel and taskbar in KDE. They pop-up when you place the cursor at the edge of the screen.

The hand-cursor is used in all versions of Acrobat Reader as well, maybe it was old Aldus that started it. This could be applied to all apps, both regular KDE and embedded, you just shove the contents of a window or frame around while holding down a mouse-buttton.

• Re: GUI suggestion by Ross Campbell on Thursday 07/Dec/2000, @17:43

  the "hand-cursor" would make it impossible to drag-select text for cut& paste. Thumbs down!

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• Re: GUI suggestion by reihal on Thursday 07/Dec/2000, @23:57

  It would be selectable, don't worry.

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• Re: GUI suggestion by Panayotis Vryonis on Monday 11/Dec/2000, @06:30

  Yes, AvantGO works this way, and it is quite functional. However, it is difficult to scroll down many pages at once ("I want to get to the bottom of this damn thing!"). Having the option of hidding the scroll bars is quite useful, especially if combined with some sort of "scrolling device", like the "Up-Down" buttons on Palms (is there support for such thing in Qt-embedded?). Joystick-like devices are very good when you *need* diagonal movement (ex. games). On a PDA I'd rather have 2 rolling-devices (I don't know how you call it in english, you know like the old style buttons used in radios to manage the volume). One at the top of the device (I could use it with my thumb) to scroll horizontally and one at the left side (where the pointer usually is) to scroll vertically... Panayotis. myPDA.jpg 4KB (4384 bytes)

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