Re: scroll wheel in eog2

[Jens Finke <jens triq net>]

On 12 Feb 2002, Gerald Champagne wrote:
> I just asked the following question on another list (before I found this
> list), but I got no response.  I'm not sure if this was a user interface
> decision or just eog2 in an intermediate state.  I'll ask again here...
>
> What happened to the scroll wheel function in eog2?  Previously the
> scroll wheel would zoom in and out of a photo, but now it acts like the
> normal vertical scroll bar.  With the hand cursor, this is redundant.

Hm, I am using a laptop with touchpad so I can't check this behavior :).

> Is this intentional?  This new operation may be more consistant, but it
> is much less usable when using eog to inspect digital photographs.  Is
> there any chance the old behaviour could be an option?  I know there is
> an emphasis to remove options, but this one was very useful.

AFAICT it wasn't removed intentionally. It must be got broken somewhere on
the gnome2 transition road. Maybe it's even because of some changes in
GTK+. I don't know. But I think too this is a nice feature. Can you file a
bug report for this in bugzilla? This way we don't forget about it.

Thanks for mentioning this.

Regards,

   Jens

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