Scrolling through huge drop-down lists

If you look at this extract from a screengrab of one of my network locations you will see that the list breaks the screen, and I have to use the up/down arrows at the top and bottom of the list to navigate, see indicator arrow.

Does the DO11 beta fix it so that I can scroll up and down the list using a mouse? (I'm waiting for some of the dust settle before trying DO11 before throwing it at my PC.)

If not, is this a feature worth adding?

Internet Explorer certainly allows scroll navigation, albeit in its usual clunky way.

This grab comes from using the GO function to navigate the network, but it also appears in other circumstances.

We haven't changed that, at least not yet.

I agree it's not ideal, although I don't think the breadcrumbs menus will ever be an idea method of navigating a large, nested folder structure. :slight_smile: They're good for quickly jumping around simple structures but the folder tree and file display will always be better for things like this example, IMO. (But it'd certainly still be good to improve how the menus behave once they fill the screen, and it is somewhere on our long ideas list.)

I agree to Leo, but maybe the usability would be a bit better, when using a scrollbar instead of the arrows at the bottom. Also on touch-devices.

"Go /network" is a good way of populating a changeable feast. After all it is an Opus feature. Why not use it?

I can navigate my way down into the depths of a complicated tree structure. The need to click up and down arrows just slows me down.

The same thing happens with "Favourites".

It is also very 20th century.

You can scroll with wheel like in lister and on touch you could swype finger up or down (btw. I don't use drop-down-lists, that's just an idea).

You could try using a mouse enhancing tool, like WizMouse. WizMouse might enable you to scroll down long drop-down lists with your mouse wheel. You can get it here: http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wizmouse-makes-your-mouse-wheel-work-on-the-window-under-the-mouse

If you use WizMouse, make sure you don't enable the "Enable mouse wheel for applications without mouse wheel support" option.