GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 308826
"Best fit" view: PgUp/PgDown should scroll exactly one page
Last modified: 2005-12-03 15:42:31 UTC
Summary says it all. In my 0.3.1 evince from Ubuntu Breezy, PgDown at the beginning of a document scrolls maybe only 80% of the necessary "way" to fit the second page exactly.
Hi Colin We have following system: Space, PageUp, PageDown scrolls 75 percent, that is useful for reading. The bugs described this behaviour are closed, but you can search for them in bugzilla. That is because reader often needs to see previous page to not loose context. That is undependant on mode, is it best fit or fit width Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown switch to next page. They are bindings for next/previous page. I hope that would be enough keys to move document.
Hi Nickolay, thanks for replying so quickly. While I agree that consistency is important, I think taking "PgDown" literally when "Best fit" is selected just feels natural. I *am* looking at a single page, and I say "give me the next page", and then I expect it to show me the next page in the same way that I was seeing the page before. This might be a special case for "Best fit" only, I agree. FWIW, Acrobat Reader 5 and 7 do it like I suggest (acroread5 is a little buggy with PgUp, PgDown works correctly). For the rest, I agree that showing part of the previous view is nice. I could bring it up on the usability list if you wanted to hear different opinions. Cheers, Colin
Bryan, what do you think, is this feature needed?
A friend added a different suggestion: how about making PgUp/PgDown scroll exactly 1 page to keep the literal meaning of the keys, but keep Scape and Backspace for scrolling with context? Personally, I am even convinced that one could lose the "Continous" checkbox altogether with a bit more adaptiveness (like "cursor keys always scroll in small increments, even with non-continous mode and best fit selected"), and not losing much in terms of usability.
Hi I don't like this change. The space bar navigation is the there because we have old unix farts who need to use that key to page down. ;-) The page down key isn't meant to be the literal meaning, it's just meant to give you a way to get the next view of a page. If you're using page down/up for navigation this can probably be a little cumbersome, but our main navigation mode is supposed to be search/page number entry so it's ok for that to be cumbersome. Interesting idea about the continous checkbox, perhaps you could file a separate bug for that.
*** Bug 323107 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***