GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 131416
Switch to the next image on mouse wheel in fit mode
Last modified: 2015-05-06 18:42:02 UTC
I so miss this feature!!
Created attachment 23344 [details] [review] Patch to CVS head
The patch is good, but the feature it adds is not. The mouse wheel is used for scrolling, and only for scrolling, adding other commands to the mouse wheel is a hack, changing the mouse wheel behaviour on certain conditions (fit mode in this case) is even a worst hack, so I'm sorry but I'll not apply your patch.
I understand your reasons. Thanks.
By the way, what about adding gconf key, disabled by default, which will enable this feature?
One more vote for the previous comment. Thanks
Yes, I would really enjoy a toggle in preferences to change this behavior (and also page up/page down to switch images)
>The mouse wheel is used for scrolling, and only for scrolling Maybe in gthumb, surely not in most of this century's image browsers. >adding other commands to the mouse wheel is a hack I'm not sure I get this one: is it a hack architecturally speaking, or is it a hack usability speaking? Cause I might get the first (I'm not a programmer, and don't know how gnome handles certain mouse events) but not certainly the second. The wheel is a tool, so it can be used in a lot of ways (and I do find some different ways very useful, e.g. zooming or changing selections, if used accordingly to good sense). >changing the mouse wheel behaviour on certain conditions (fit mode in this case) is even a worst hack I hope you'll put the mouse wheel support in gthumb, since I found it is a big lack in your otherwise very good program. A pref. check might be the key.
I would very much like this feature, it's just too stupid that gthumb is missing something like this. Wheel on a mouse can be used for *so* many different things than just scrolling up and down...
*** Bug 152942 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The only thing I miss in gThumb: switching to prev/next image with mousewheel is just so convenient. A preferences option would be nice : it should work in all view modes (browsing mode included, as long as the cursor is over the preview pane).
My girlfriend is very non-technical i.e. an "average computer user" (in my opinion anyway). She has a digital camera and a alot of photos and she uses acdsee on win98 to manage her photos. When she browses her photos she uses this scroll wheel feature extensively. Because of the lack of this very convenient and common feature I really couldn't recommend gthumb for her, if she ever becomes a Linux/Gnome user.
Is there no intention of implementing this feature? I too think it is a very sensible way to use the mouse wheel and it is a behaviour that people expect in an image viewer these days (look at ACDSee and Picasa on Windows).
*** Bug 164363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I am willing to review/commit a patch that implements a GUI preference (with matching gconf pref of course) to control the function of the mouse wheel (scroll by default, forward/back by non-default). The patch in comment 1 overloaded the mouse wheel with too many mode-dependent functions. Nickolay - any interest in revising your patch to does this, for application against CVS HEAD? Or anyone else? - Mike
*** Bug 374689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 76500 [details] [review] Mouse wheel preference patch Here is a patch that adds a mouse wheel function preference. This only adds the preference setting - it doesn't use it yet. Can I have a volunteer to build on this and make a patch to libgthumb/image-viewer.c to actually USE the preference? You would do this by adding something like if (pref_get_mouse_wheel () == GTH_MOUSE_WHEEL_NAVIGATE) or if (pref_get_mouse_wheel () == GTH_MOUSE_WHEEL_SCROLL) to the code. I don't quite understand the image-viewer.c scroll signal code, so I'd appreciate help. - Mike
please do not add a preference for this feature, just implement the feature.
Created attachment 77026 [details] [review] Mouse wheel navigation-only patch I have committed this attachment, adding mouse-wheel navigation. It is a simplified and updated version of Nickolay's patch. This should appear in 2.9.0 shortly. - Mike
(In reply to comment #17) > please do not add a preference for this feature, just implement the feature. > seems way ago, but may I ask why there should be no pref about that? I used gthumb since it was born and "great" behavior of ACDSee and others just makes me sick (and I am not sole in that , see http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/300006015831/inc/1 for instance). I don't think one-way changes are a great way to move forward, sorry.
I've just filed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631205 , which documents another major pitfall with this feature.
Googling "gthumb mousewheel". A whole bunch of discussion trying to find a way to have mousewheel scroll instead of navigate. This should be a preference.