GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 348906
Shift-space should scroll upwards
Last modified: 2015-04-03 13:13:15 UTC
When viewing mail message, the space bar can be used to scroll down. Shift-space has no effect, though. Other applications like Epiphany and Evince use shift-space to scroll up. I think Evolution should do the same.
hmm... correct. confirming.
Pressing space is something like a 1/4 pagedown. Is that what you want? I wonder who I can scroll up again... IMHO the Up/Down keys should be scroll-down/up while left/right-keys should be used for next/prev-message. With that combination it is very easy to navigate through your mails. I still haven't found a way to use Evolution without a mouse...
I am sorry, I misread this. space to scroll down, shift-space to scroll up. Well, still this is no real scrolling, this is mini-pageup... It is much harder this way for the eye to find the last word you read again (IMHO).
I beg to differ: I use space/shift-space in Epiphany (and Firefox) and Evince all the time. There's no reason for Evolution to behave different in this area. (Even console applications like mutt, less, more and slrn use the space bar for scrolling, but shift-space is not supported in terminal applications)
note hig bug: 117114
Is there any chance of this feature being implemented anytime soon? Thanks.
Bumping version to a stable release.
Ping? Adding a shift-space binding would make Evolution much more usable (at least for me), and makes Evolution behave like Evince and Epiphany.
Space and Shift-Space already work fine for me in both the preview pane and message window. Tested with 2.25.5. What aspect of this is not fixed?
Good to hear. I'm still on 2.24. Does Backspace do the same as Shift-Space? (And for that matter, does Shift-Backspace do the same as Space? In Evince it does.)
Doesn't look like Backspace is bound to anything in the preview pane or message window. I agree it would be good to make it consistent with Evince. Targetting this for the kill-bonobo branch.
Thanks Matthew, glad to hear you care about consistency with other Gnome apps. (However, what does this have to do with killing bonobo?)
It's a branch of mine that will be landing by 2.27.1 (hopefully). I'm lining up a bunch of simple usability bugs to pick off while we're frozen for 2.26.
*** Bug 624857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
WebKit based evolution's preview supports Shift+Space up-scroll for free (tested with 3.16.0, but the WebKit preview landed in time of 3.6 or so), thus I'm closing this as fixed.