Mouse wheel zoom in/out not working

[Ari]

Binary package hint: gthumb

gThumb 2.10.x reportedly restored the zoom in/out behaviour controlled by the mouse wheel.

Ubuntu Hardy version of it (as of today) still implements the old annoying mouse wheel behaviour (Next/Previous picture controlled by the wheel) that was changed in 2.10 due to massive user complaints.

This is a request for the ubuntu gthumb package to do zoom in/out by default, as intended by the application devs.

Below are the release notes for gthumb 2.10 where the new behavior is stated (the highlighting is mine)

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Version 2.10 is now available at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gthumb/2.10/

    * gthumb-2.10.8.tar.gz
    * gthumb-2.10.8.tar.bz2

This is a major new release, with new features not available in the 2.8 series. The following is the list of the major new features of the 2.10 series:

    * Added support for displaying remote locations.
    * Added red-eye removal tool.
    * Added a filter bar, to limit displayed images.
    * Added thumbnailing and player-launching for videos and audio files.
    * Added programmable hotkeys.
    * Added the ability to manually specify photo print sizes.
    * Added a zoom-to-width mode.
    * Added sort by comment and sort by Exif DateTime tag.
    * Adds support for multiple auto-detected cameras, or multiple modes for single cameras.
    * Enhancements to the crop dialog: added undo/redo support; allow to crop multiple times without exiting the dialog; allow to switch on/off the selection mask;

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zoom in/out with mouse wheel;

zoom keeping the center of the image visible.
    * Allows file extension to be changed when bulk-renaming.
    * Added "reset Exif orientation tag" tool.
    * New re-size options in web exporter to allow equal landscape and portrait image sizes.

For a detailed list of the new features and bugfixes see here.

Thanks to all contributors:

    * Michael J. Chudobiak
    * Manuel Braga
    * Jef Driesen
    * Rennie deGraaf

Paolo Bacchilega — March 19, 2007

[mjc (mjc-avtechpulse)]

As noted in the upstream report, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475509, that Changelog entry refers to the crop dialog only.

2.10.x uses the mousewheel to navigate, for better or for worse.

- Mike

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately as stated above, this is considered desired behavior upstream.