It is not possible to disable the "inertia" effect

[Miguel Diago]

Binary package hint: evince

(Hardy)

When you click with the middle mouse button on a document, move it around and then leave it, the document still moves a little bit like it had an "inertia" effect.

Some users might not like this behaviour and would probably like to disable this effect.

However, in the current version of Evince there isn't any way to disable it, so I think it would be good to put some checkbox in a scrolling menu to configure this behaviour.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 27 19:18:46 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, this is not reproducible for me with Hardy or Intrepid, are you still facing the issue? can you try with intrepid? thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[positivek (anonyhole)]

Still in the Jaunty version of Ubuntu in:
Document Viewer 2.26.1

There still is no option for enabling/disabling this "inertia"/"momentum" effect of dragging the document around. That is, the behavior is that the document is "thrown" around when the mouse-drag is released in motion.

Note that there is also a "rubber bumper" behavior that seems to also come with this inertial effect. If you "throw" the document such that the limit of scrolling is reached, then the document will "bounce back" as if it has hit the side of a pool table bumper.

A) These physical-analog behaviors is non-standard and unexpected. This dragging behavior is inconsistent with other page dragging applications (e.g. Eye of GNOME 2.26.1 image viewer does not behave this way).
B) Remove this behavior completely, but allow it for people who build their own or get their own version of Evince, or
C) There should be a way of disabling this in Evince, with the behavior disabled by default.

[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!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. This bug was reported some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

The upstream bug was closed "RESOLVED INCOMPLETE" on 2011-06-29 as no information regarding the issue in later versions of evince was provided.

Does anyone still see a problem using currently supported versions of Ubuntu and evince? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report won't expire due to bug watch
No reply to comment #7 or any reports of issue for nearly 10 years