GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 317060
evince scrolls a non-useful amount on page-down
Last modified: 2008-01-13 15:12:11 UTC
Version details: 0.4.0-2 Distribution/Version: Fedora Core Development tree 1. Open a multi-page PDF 2. Maximize evince 3. Set to 'best fit' (so that only one page appears on the screen) 4. Hit 'Page Down' Evince scrolls somewhere between 2/3 and 3/4 of a page. Logically, it should scroll a whole page.
Bryan, I dont remember the exact logic but I seem to recall we already discussed this in some other bug?
I think we left a small amount so you could still understand where in the page you were. If we actually do the scroll of an entire page, then we get bug reports when people are confused and end up hitting page down, scrolling up a bit... realizing where they are in the doc, then scrolling back down. *shrug* All in all the page down method isn't the best for navigating the document, find or thumbnail browsing is best. I believe we have some Ctrl-PageDown thing that does a couple pages, but I don't remember that stuff anymore.
Hm. I'm certainly accustomed to full-page scrolling with page-down in other apps, such as the web browser.
Page up and page down doing exactly that in continuous mode would be really good.
Since it's a design decision it's not a bug, closing.
Please try viewing a page in best fit mode before deciding to close this. I don't think this use case has been properly considered yet.
If this design decision is really a decision (as opposed to "it happened so and nobody looked at this case"), and it's really decided that this behavior is desired, then perhaps it should be closed as NOTABUG. But it's a bug, and it's still present!
well, we should finally write at least a document about our scrolling. Design decision is nothing unless it's documented.