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The "Add Widget" dialog should scroll by at least one widget per tick of the mouse-wheel.

Currently, scrolling the mouse-wheel scrolls by roughly 6 letters at a time. This makes it very inefficient to scroll through the ever-growing list of included widgets using the mouse-wheel.

If the dialog would scroll by 3 widgets per tick, that would allow a must faster browsing experience.

Even at 800x600 resolution, using the default theme, 6 widgets are visible at a time in the widget selector, so scrolling by 3 at a time would have the aesthetic of scrolling by half a page.

Vertical scrolling (when panel is docked to a side) also honors the 3-line-per-tick default. This would be an ideal approach if the items in the widget picker were represented only with text, but 3 lines a time means it takes 2-3 ticks of the scroll-wheel to move a widget out of the current field of view.

If you observe the behavior of dolphin, it scrolls based on the number of icons, rather than the number of lines of text. If it behaved the same way the widget picker behaves, it would be nearly unusable to scroll through a list of pictures that were being previewed.

Fully agree with you, navigating in widget list isn't currently the smoothest experience it could be. ^^ Although the categories and search bar somewhat compensate for that.
+1!