Tangled up in Blue

So it hit me that I’m always complaining about look and feel, and various usability issues, but actually spend most of my time writing silly window managers, and increasingly obscure bits of JavaScript (Hey, if you ever want to write an asynchronous, GLib main loop integrated network server in JavaScript, I’ve got you covered now).

So without further ado I present:

Bad scroll:

Bad scrolling from Robert Carr on Vimeo.
Good Scroll:

Awesome scrolling from Robert Carr on Vimeo.

It’s worth noting that this isn’t like the firefox “smooth scrolling” where in fact scrolling is still in discrete steps of dozens of pixels, you can actually scroll by a pixel at a time here. Right now the code is in a somewhat adhorent state, but I’ll have it cleaned up within the next few days and post the xf86-input-synaptics patches, and the assosciated GTK patches.