GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 151929
Scrollwheel should zoom in/out
Last modified: 2015-07-03 18:29:56 UTC
If you scroll with the mousewheel within a picture, it should zomm in/out and not 1. do nothing when the picture has the size of the window or 2. move up/down when the picture is bigger than the size of the window Corel Photopaint and Adobe Photoshop do it that way, so why doesn't GIMP? Other information:
You can zoom in/out using the scroll wheel. You just need to press the Shift(?) modifier. In GIMP 2.1 this is also completely configurable.
Nice to know it can be done, but... Since the unshifted scroll to zoom is kind of standard, and it's more useful than moving one direction in a 2d space, the default should be changed.
Using the unmodified scroll wheel to zoom in and out is kind of BROKEN not standard. In all other applications - not drawing applications - the wheel is for scrolling. BTW - it is called "scroll wheel", not "zoom wheel". As for the "one dimension", just place the cursor over the horizontal scroll bar of the window do scroll in the other direction.
*** Bug 163275 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
You can also scroll horizontally using the scroll wheel by pressing the Ctrl modifier.
Thanks - shifted wheel scrolling works fine! But .. ... unshifted wheel scrolling IS kind of standard - for example the MS picture viewer in XP does this (and of course some good CAD programs). Another possible improvement: It would be nice to have the actual mouse position as the zooming center! Good CAD software and GIS systems work like that - it is already hard for me to live without it ;-)
Derk, please don't be such a jerk. I've explained to you that you can reconfigure the mouse wheel to act the way you like it and zooming to the mouse position is handled in another bug report.
agree with the other users. Zooming in/out should have priority on scrolling…its only a shortcut to set as default one, whats the problem? Zooming in or out is possible only after changing the shortcuts preferences, which i find unexplainable. who needs scolling, now seriously? Gimp isnt a Text editor, its a creative tool that needs more dimensions than some fonts. Scrolling isnt usable, i mean it moves only in one direction. Zoom and pan, thats normal.
There are mice which allow scrolling on both axes. Also, there is another bug about more reasonable default settings for the wheel input controller.