GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 710231
Mouse wheel up increase and decrease brightness and sound.
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:10:59 UTC
Hi all. I have a problem with 3.10.x user experience. If I use mouse wheel (or trackpad) in status menu to change brightness or sound, wheel up will increase sound (or brightness), sounds ok. But if I go for example in "Power settings" to change screen brightness with gtk slider, wheel up will decrease brightness. I think it's a little bit disturbing for user.
Right, I can confirm that Well, I think it's clear we want up to increase and down to decrease, so reassigning to control-center (although maybe it's a gtk bug?)
Indeed, this inconsistency has existed forever, and it's a bit of a tricky one. All gtk+ horizontal sliders move left when scrolling up, and move right when scrolling down, and people have gotten used to that. For instance, the "Mouse & Touchpad" applet works like this, and no one has ever complained. Flipping this would break a lot of applications, and making it context-dependent would make the widget's behaviour inconsistent, and break user expectation. I'm not sure what the convention is on other OSes like OS X.
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