GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 781993
Pixel-based smooth scrolling for touchpads (and touchscreens)
Last modified: 2018-05-22 14:28:12 UTC
One thing that GTK3 brings and that I'd love to see in gnumeric is smooth scrolling (even kinetic scrolling maybe). In applications such as Nautilus, Evince, or even Firefox, I get super smooth scrolling when using my touchpad and moving two fingers slowly or using the touchpad's edge scroll feature. Gnumeric is hard to use on a laptop because it scrolls in a discrete way, bumping up/down a bunch of rows at once for each scroll unit... whereas touchpads are continous instead of discrete, and they don't have the tactile feedback (the clickiness) of a traditional mouse wheel so the gnumeric UI mismatches the physical device. It would be awesome if it supported smooth scrolling for touchpads, touchscreens, and (some) mice that support it.
We have no support for touch devices beyond what we just happen to get from gtk+. "Gnumeric is hard to use on a laptop[...]" That part I don't get. I can see a problem on a tablet with touch as the primary input, but a laptop with keyboard and mouse(-like) device ought to work just fine. In fact, it works just fine for me.
Created attachment 350806 [details] screencast ...on a laptop with a touchpad when using the touchpad to scroll with the aim of having precision while scrolling, is what I meant. I want to be able to scroll as slowly as my fingers allow me to do, as you can see in this screencast.
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