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Bug 348906 - Shift-space should scroll upwards
Shift-space should scroll upwards
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[kill-bonobo]
: 624857 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 310552
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-27 08:36 UTC by Wouter Bolsterlee (uws)
Modified: 2015-04-03 13:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.1/3.2



Description Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2006-07-27 08:36:52 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.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2006-07-28 13:43:13 UTC
hmm... correct. confirming.
Comment 2 Carsten Niehaus 2006-08-07 08:02:48 UTC
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...
Comment 3 Carsten Niehaus 2006-08-07 08:05:57 UTC
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).
Comment 4 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2006-08-07 08:31:26 UTC
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)
Comment 5 lexual 2006-09-15 05:39:33 UTC
note hig bug: 117114
Comment 6 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2008-01-17 10:55:47 UTC
Is there any chance of this feature being implemented anytime soon? Thanks.
Comment 7 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:29:15 UTC
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 8 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2009-01-25 19:57:16 UTC
Ping? Adding a shift-space binding would make Evolution much more usable (at least for me), and makes Evolution behave like Evince and Epiphany.
Comment 9 Matthew Barnes 2009-01-25 20:43:24 UTC
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?
Comment 10 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2009-01-25 21:06:19 UTC
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.)
Comment 11 Matthew Barnes 2009-01-25 23:51:40 UTC
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.
Comment 12 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2009-01-26 09:53:41 UTC
Thanks Matthew, glad to hear you care about consistency with other Gnome apps.

(However, what does this have to do with killing bonobo?)
Comment 13 Matthew Barnes 2009-01-26 12:29:16 UTC
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.
Comment 14 André Klapper 2012-02-14 14:16:24 UTC
*** Bug 624857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Milan Crha 2015-04-03 13:13:15 UTC
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.