I already wrote about the tap which needed waving in front of it. This one has a similar nice hand symbol and a "PUSH" note. Although some might argue that tap interface with "instructions" is not really good :).
I already wrote about the tap which needed waving in front of it. This one has a similar nice hand symbol and a "PUSH" note. Although some might argue that tap interface with "instructions" is not really good :).
Plan 9 from Bell Labs has always had scroll bars on the left side. And the behavior is quite similar to the described Athena scroll bar. One interesting feature however (I don’t know if the Athena scroll bar has it) is, that more or less lines are being scrolled, depending on the place you click: Near the top, the scroll speed is rather a line on each click while near the bottom it comes closer to one page each click. This comes handy when you right click next to the beginning of a line: That line will always be placed as the top row in the window.
Another funny behavior of the plan 9 scroll bar is that the size its thumb (like others as well) corresponds to the fraction of text displayed in the current window, but, unlike every other such scrollbar I have seen, it does not correspond lines but rather to characters. That means, the thumb will be smaller when there are lots of short or empty lines on the screen, and it will be bigger when there is a lot of text shown.
Thanks f for sharing this peculiar behaviour of Plan 9’s scroll bars.
I forgot about Plan 9 and it’s little Glenda. Beyond the scroll bars, Glenda & Daemon (Beastie) are the cutest OS logos imho.
I happen to like Athena scrollbars; they are best kind. Plan 9 is working similarly I suppose, although the feature you describe it depends on the place you click is a feature that Athena scrollbars have too. I have made the XBL implementation of Athena scrollbar to use in Firefox too although there are a few things that won’t work properly