zooming with mouse wheel seems dysfunctional in Ubuntu's eye of GNOME

[Muelli]

I cannot zoom in and out of pictures using the wheel. Similarly, space bar for going to the next picture doesn't work.
The documentation claims that it should work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: eog 3.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Oct 28 15:09:19 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171012)
SourcePackage: eog
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

):

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.