GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 79352
shift-mousewheel could zoom in / out on nautilus views..
Last modified: 2005-07-10 17:10:28 UTC
Gimp uses this too - ideally we'd need this on the styleguide though so all applications that have zoom feature would be consistent with it.
Tig: you can file an HIG bug on this if you want...
Note that you can zoom in/out with the mouse wheel when the mouse pointer is on the zoom control in a nautilus browser window.
*** Bug 162308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 305158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 46792 [details] [review] Proposed patch (against HEAD).
Comment on attachment 46792 [details] [review] Proposed patch (against HEAD). Very nice, please commit. (The MS Office/FireFox guys will still scream for Ctrl+Scroll though, I'm afraid)
Done. Note that I used the same keybinding as the GIMP, and Ephy uses ctrl+scroll for double-stepped scrolling, so I thought this keybinding would be a good idea.
Actually, I believe that agreement with mozilla* or windows is much more important seeing as about 100x more people use them than the other fine applications mentioned. In five+ years of using it, I never even knew gimp could scroll on shift+mousewheel until reading this thread. That says a little about keeping it consistent with highly used applications and platforms. Familiarity and expectations rule. If that doesn't persuade you, a gconf key to configure the setting would be highly appreciated. Thanks for your hard work. ;)
Mozilla 1.7 doesn't zoom on Ctrl+Scroll for me. But yeah, we have to sort out whether we should change this.
Now that I think of, mozilla seamonkey didn't have mousewheel bindings by default, they had to be set manually. However, in a email thread I was cc'd on, Calum Benson points out the relavant section of the gnome HIG: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input.html#mouse-buttons 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.
You're totally right. I've filed bug 306110 against Epiphany.
Created attachment 47097 [details] [review] Proposed patch #2 (against HEAD).
Thanks for your efforts. The issue will be fixed in the upcoming 2.11 release.
I just noticed this collides with the more common use case of holding ctrl while scrolling through a long list to select some specific files. That might be a problem.
Martin: Good point. Do you see any solution? In my opinion, it is ok that user now have to release the ctrl key again before scrolling through the list.
No feedback, closing. Obviously the behavior mentioned in comment 14 is an inconvinient but inevitable side effect.