GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309236
ctrl+<mouse scroll> zooms in opposite direction as firefox
Last modified: 2006-01-31 21:37:51 UTC
Please describe the problem: Holding the control key and scrolling the mouse wheel performs a zoom operation in both firefox and evince. However, the zooming operation in each program is different. That is to say that holding control and scrolling the mouse 'downwards' zooms in in firefox and zooms out in evince. I kind of feel that scrolling the mouse wheel 'upwards' feels more like an inward motion. This is the way that evince currently works. But, regardless of how I feel the behavior of this operation should be decided upon and work uniformly across as many programs as possible. Due to the inertia of firefox, it's likely easier for evince to make the change. Steps to reproduce: 1. hold control and scroll a wheel mouse in evince 2. hold control and scroll a wheel mouse in firefox 3. notice the difference Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
See also Epiphany bug 306110, where we're discussing changing Epiphany's wheel-zoom to the way evince now works.
Eog zooms the same way as evince, so this points to that being the right way for Epiphany too, IMHO.
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/input.html#input-mouse ... Ctrl-scrollwheel-up should zoom into the window or control under the mouse pointer, and Ctrl-scrollwheel-down should zoom out. Zooming in this way should not move keyboard focus to the window or control being zoomed. ...
Changed Epiphany to be in line with the HIG. Now Epiphany, Evince and Eog use the HIG setting; this becomes firefox' problem if they differ.
FWIW OpenOffice.org is on our side as well.
FWIW I filed an OS integration bug against firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299879
*** Bug 131262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***