Reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/235277

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When you click with the middle mouse button on a document, move it around and then leave it, the document still moves a little bit like it had an "inertia" effect.

Some users might not like this behaviour and would probably like to disable this effect.

However, in the current version of Evince there isn't any way to disable it, so I think it would be good to put some checkbox in a scrolling menu to configure this behaviour.
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Still in the Jaunty version of Ubuntu in:
Document Viewer 2.26.1

There still is no option for enabling/disabling this "inertia"/"momentum" effect of dragging the document around. That is, the behavior is that the document is "thrown" around when the mouse-drag is released in motion.

Note that there is also a "rubber bumper" behavior that seems to also come with this inertial effect. If you "throw" the document such that the limit of scrolling is reached, then the document will "bounce back" as if it has hit the side of a pool table bumper.

A) These physical-analog behaviors is non-standard and unexpected. This dragging behavior is inconsistent with other page dragging applications (e.g. Eye of GNOME 2.26.1 image viewer does not behave this way).
B) Remove this behavior completely, but allow it for people who build their own or get their own version of Evince, or
C) There should be a way of disabling this in Evince, with the behavior disabled by default.
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