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Bug 795360 - Cannot use mousewheel to scroll tabs anymore
Cannot use mousewheel to scroll tabs anymore
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface General
3.0
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: future
Assigned To: gnucash-ui-maint
gnucash-ui-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2018-04-18 15:49 UTC by Fabian Köster
Modified: 2018-06-30 00:08 UTC
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Description Fabian Köster 2018-04-18 15:49:15 UTC 
In GnuCash 2.6 I could switch many tabs (e.g. accounts) fast using the mousewheel and scrolling through them.

In GnuCash 3.0 this is not possible anymore and I have to manually click the left/right buttons.
Comment 1 John Ralls 2018-04-19 00:21:35 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 795294 ***
Comment 2 Geert Janssens 2018-05-02 10:19:11 UTC 
Actually not a duplicate. Both bugs deal with scrolling, but this one is about scrolling through the tabs at the top of the page, while the other one is about scrolling down through the list of accounts.

However there's no solution for this bug from within gnucash. The gtk developers decided to remove the scrolling behaviour in the tabs (technically a notebook) for gtk3.

If you want to restore it, you'll need to build gtk3 yourself after applying the inverse patch of this:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/commit/ad48f4d52bbac6139dd829fcc421ad16441f34d2

Alternatively you can contact the gtk project and convince them of the usefulness of this feature hoping they will restore it.

I'm struggling a bit to choose the right resolution. Gtk used to handle their bugs via bugzilla as well so normally I would simply reassign it. However I believe they are in the middle of a migration to gitlab so new bugs should go there. I'll mark it as NOTGNOME, with the intended meaning of NOTGNUCASH.
Comment 3 Fabian Köster 2018-05-09 20:31:12 UTC 
@Geert Thank you very much for your explanation!

That is very unfortunate as many people benefited from it and the costs for keeping it are actually really low. Sometimes I get really frustrated by GNOME people and their obsession with simplification.

Thankfully I am running Gentoo Linux and can quite easily apply the inverse patch to gtk3 you mentioned.

Thanks again for your time!
Comment 4 John Ralls 2018-06-30 00:08:32 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795360. Please update any external references or bookmarks.