GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 347174
Cursors Should be Used for Panning
Last modified: 2006-08-06 23:35:14 UTC
have a small usability/consistency issue, which, though rather trivial, is something of a "pet hate" for me. On playing with Fedora Core 6 Test 1 last night, I saw it is still present in the GNOME development build 2.15.2, so I thought I would raise it with you. If the user opens a graphic in gThumb and maximises it to "Full Screen" view (F11) and then zooms in (+ key) they can pan around the image using the cursors. If they then want to move to the next or previous graphic in the directory, they can use the Page Up or Page Down keys. This is all fine, so far as I am concerned. Unfortunately, Eye of GNOME (EOG) has somewhat different behaviour, that makes the two tools inconsistent with each other. On opening a graphic, switching to "Full Screen" view and zooming in, the cursors can no longer be used for panning around. Instead, pressing the up, down, left or right cursors switch the user to the previous or next graphic in the directory. Panning must be done with the mouse instead of keyboard shortcuts. My preference would definitely be that EOG be modified so that the cursors are used for panning, not for moving forwards and backwards between graphics. Other information: I have raised this issue on the GNOME Usability mailing list, too.
Hi! Thanks for the bug report! Do keep in mind that being consistent with Gthumb is not in any way a goal of EOG's. So I retitled the bug to better refer to the actual request you made, hope that's OK with you.
Fixed in HEAD. Thanks! 2006-08-04 Lucas Rocha <lucasr@gnome.org> * libeog/eog-full-screen.c (eog_full_screen_key_press): panning around the image with up, down, left, and right keys (Fixes bug #347174).
Thanks, Lucas. Great that the community listens to we non-programmers in the userbase! Cheers, D. Le Sage APF Hobart, Tasmania