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I had an idea today for a feature that I think would be very handy for people with large libraries or long lists within their libraries.
I was in the grouping drawer going through my authors, I wanted to look up Robert Sheckley, I went to the "S" authors and since I have 194 of them, I started quickly scrolling. I stopped where I thought I was far enough and it turned out I was at the "Sm"s. I scrolled backwards a bit and stopped at the "Sc"s and then slowly moved forward to Sheckley.
I thought, "wouldn't be be nice to have a small indication to show me where I was in any list I was scrolling though". It could appear when I started scrolling and then go away as soon as the scrolling stopped. I don't think it would need to show the whole item, but perhaps the first two or three letters (probably two) would give me enough of an indication to know when to slow down or stop. I see this as a semi-transparent grey box with the letters in it near the upper right of the screen, but that's just my vision. It might make more sense to put it in the grouping bar so you didn't have to deal with scrolling issues.
This would be handy both in the grouping drawer and in the book list. I'm not sure it would be useful for dates, or other number based fields, but for alphabetic based elements, it would make scrolling a lot nicer.
Anyone else think this might be useful?
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