scrolling text view: auto-scroll to bottom behavior

[Gablewatts]

I initially reported this as a bug against the gnome-system-log in the gnome-utils package (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/748027) but was informed by Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> that the problem was upstream and I should report the problem here. I don't know what package to report it against because I don't know what package x11's scrolling text view is in.

Here is my original statement of the problem:
  I am trying to read earlier entries in the kern.log or the syslog so I
  use the scroll bar on the text view to attempt to scroll back but I am
  constantly thwarted by gnome-system-log scrolling to the tail of the
  file because a new line was added to the log. gnome-system-log does
  this even WHILE I am dragging the scroll elevator up attempting to
  view earlier entries in the log!

  I appreciate the value of automatically scrolling to the tail of the
  log when a new entry is added. But doing so when the user is
  attempting to scroll back to read earlier entries is thwarting the
  user's use of the scroll bar.

  I suggest that if the user has scrolled back to view earlier entries
  in the log, gnome-system-log should suspend it's "scroll to tail when
  new entries added" behavior until the user has scrolled to the end of
  the log again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic-pae 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
DRM.card0.DP.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1366x768
 edid-base64: AP///////wAw5D8CAAAAAAATAQOAHRB4Cu4llVlViykiUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBPhxWoFAAFjAwIDUAJaUQAAAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/gAAAABMR0Rpc3BsYXkKAAAA/gBMUDEzM1dIMi1UTEE0AHg=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Fri Apr 8 23:33:21 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:b1d8 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Acer Aspire 3820
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic-pae root=UUID=39e00792-ec36-4316-ba24-3346fd0f9dc2 ro acpi_osi=Linux quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 10/27/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: V1.19
dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: JM31_CP
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: V1.19
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: V1.19
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.19:bd10/27/2010:svnAcer:pnAspire3820:pvrV1.19:rvnAcer:rnJM31_CP:rvrV1.19:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.19:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 3820
dmi.product.version: V1.19
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.35-28-generic-pae

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chris Wilson (ickle)]

This bug hasn't received any attention as it was filed against the display driver and not against the rogue application.