horizontal scroll to the left is nonfunctional

[ethanay]

Binary package hint: eog

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

$ apt-cache policy eog
eog:
  Installed: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When I a zoom an image, I expect ctrl+ horizontal scroll to scroll across the image. Behaves as expected with right scroll. No activity with left scroll.

Reproduce:
1. Zoom into the image
2. Scroll right with trackpad
3. Now scroll left with trackpad.

[ethanay (ethan-y-us)]

More info:

behavior only appears when using ctrl modifier

so when /apps/eog/view/scroll_wheel_zoom is set true:
user is unable to scroll left across image when zoomed

when /apps/eog/view/scroll_wheel_zoom is set false:
user is unable to zoom out with horizontal scroll

This behavior appears to affect gThumb as well.

In general, it seems that the HIG implementation for scrolling is all messed up, as it is a confusing set of different operations for each program. But that is a different bug...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME Thanks in advance!

[ethanay (ethan-y-us)]

upstream bug report filed at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614772