Catalogs: Improve horizontal scrolling book lists

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Catalogs: Improve horizontal scrolling book lists #532

Open bertob opened 4 years ago

bertob commented 4 years ago

The horizontally scrolling lists of books on the catalogs page feel a bit off, primarily because

they scroll freely, rather than snapping to specific positions, which feels "slippery" and not really appropriate for this kind of use case
there's a horizontal scrollbar, which is not great visually. I don't think this really needs a visual indicator for the position in the list.
the scrollbar is overlaid over the text

Perhaps an HdyCarousel would be a better choice than a scrollview here?

cc @exalm

alice-mkh commented 4 years ago

As discussed in libhandy room, it would make sense to have https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy/-/merge_requests/543 merged first, so it's not 1-page-per-swipe.

digitalethics commented 4 years ago

Related to #473 and #511

johnfactotum commented 10 months ago

Technically speaking the original issue isn't applicable anymore as there's no longer a Catalogs view.

However it now supports a new feature, which is grouping items from the same collection. And that sort of has the same issue, though it's slightly better in that the scrollbar doesn't cover the text, and it has scroll snapping:

For reference, the same page in v2 looks like this:

So I guess I will keep this issue open.