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Bug 117114 - HIG should specify space and shift+space for scrolling in document viewers
HIG should specify space and shift+space for scrolling in document viewers
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 737406
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-10 06:41 UTC by bulbul
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description bulbul 2003-07-10 06:41:30 UTC 
I am not sure to what extent Gnome applications adhere to this convention,
but in some document viewing programs, space is used to scroll down one
"screenful" and shift+space is used to move up one screenful. It is a
further convention, in documents with pagination (e.g. PDF and PostScript),
that if the viewer is already at the top of the page and you press
shift+space then it goes to the bottom of the preceding page. Conversely,
if the viewer is at the bottom of the page, pressing shift will take you to
the top of the next page. 

Programs that i know of which used this convention are: Mozilla, Konqueror,
KDVI, xdvi, and GhostView.

It would be nice to see these conventions enshrined in the HIG.
Comment 1 bulbul 2003-07-10 14:36:17 UTC 
I have also filed a parallel bug for the KDE HIG here:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61028
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2003-07-11 05:42:50 UTC 
I have a feeling that this is already part of the keynav spec. Need to
hunt calum down for a definitive answer.
Comment 3 bulbul 2003-07-11 07:27:50 UTC 
It doesn't look like it's in there:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/keynav/gtk_containers.html

I only see page up and page down. 

By the way, yet another app that uses this is xpdf.
Comment 4 Calum Benson 2003-11-25 14:37:40 UTC 
There's some discussion of this in bug #93049, which was closed as
WONTFIX.  Unless we the Yelp guys were to change their mind, I'm not
sure how much point there is in recommending this in the HIG.

(FWIW, personally I don't think it works all that well in web browsers
and other documents that can have "active" content, since Space
activates the content so you get inconsistent behaviour depending on
what happens to be focused at the time.)
Comment 5 Calum Benson 2004-10-21 16:39:27 UTC 
Apologies for spam-- ensuring Sun a11y team are cc'ed on all current a11y bugs.
 Filter on "SUN A11Y SPAM" to ignore.
Comment 6 Calum Benson 2006-04-26 17:13:35 UTC 
Apologies for spam... ensuring Sun a11y folks are cc'ed on all current accessibility bugs.
Comment 7 lexual 2006-09-15 05:40:17 UTC 
note epiphany bug requesting this feature, bug: 348906
Comment 8 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2006-09-15 07:51:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> note epiphany bug requesting this feature, bug: 348906

Bug #348906 is for Evolution, not Epiphany. Epiphany already handles space/shift-space (just like mozilla and firefox)
Comment 9 Allan Day 2014-09-26 13:10:50 UTC 
Could be a nice thing to add to a page on scrolling. See bug 737406.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 737406 ***