scrollwheel should scroll not browse

[Lesmana Zimmer]

Binary package hint: gthumb

in gthumb, viewing an image, scrolling the scrollwheel should scroll the image instead of browsing to the next/previous image. that way it would be more consistent with other apps and also conforming to gnomes own human interface guideline.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-mouse.html.en

using ubuntu jaunty

related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/435488 (scrollwheel should scroll not zoom)
a bit related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/92607 (using "ctrl + mouse scroll wheel" for zooming is inconsistent in different application)

[Endolith (endolith)]

This is really infuriating, when you try to scroll down an image and it fast forwards through dozens of image and loses your place. Is there a way to disable this?

[Hugo Buddel (v-launchpad-hugo-doemaarwat-nl)]

From the changelog of 2.9.1 and the corresponding bugreport (131416) it seems that the idea was to navigate through the images only in fit mode.

Perhaps a modifier key such as Alt. for either scrolling or navigating would be nice?

In the meantime, does anyone know a (fast) image viewer that allows one to scroll with the scroll wheel? (I reinstalled gthumb because I knew it had this feature...)

http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/news.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131416

[Jani Uusitalo (uusijani)]

This has been fixed upstream ages ago, how come the fix never made it to Ubuntu? I'm using up-to-date Precise and this is still an issue: scrollwheel still browses between pictures instead of panning the current picture.

[mjc (mjc-avtechpulse)]

Current upstream gthumb uses the mousewheel for prev/next navigation, not for scrolling within an image.

[Jani Uusitalo (uusijani)]

More accurate upstream target; previous was fixed but didn't fix the issue reported here.

[kenjiru (kenjiru)]

Any news about this issue? The default behaviour is really annoying, since in all other applications the mouse wheel is used for zooming. It should be configurable somehow.

[Paolo Montrasio (paolo-paolomontrasio)]

Definitely an annoying behaviour.
If there is a scrollbar on the image I probably want to scroll the image, not the list of the images.
I'm sorry to sound negative but I installed gThumb as an alternative to eog but I'm unistalling it because of this. I'll be checking some other viewer.

[Marcin Mielniczuk (marmistrz)]

Please make it configurable.

[TLRobb (terry-maximatcher)]

Really, how hard can it be to change this default behavior to an option and save us all from this annoying inconsistency. After 7 years?

[Are We Still In The Game? (arewestillinthegame)]

Is there a way we can fix this?