Re: Fwd: PgDn no longer scrolls a page at a time

On 03/02 11:07 , HaJo Schatz wrote:
> Sending it to the correct list would truly help increasing it's
> exposure ;-)

we all typo things from time to time. :)

> > I really would like that behavior back tho... seemed to make eminent sense.
> > :) (unless someone can suggest an even better way to do things, which is
> > likely possible).

> I actually appreciate the trend of gqview behaving the same way no
> matter where I got the focus. 

you are correct sir; there is a lot of value to this consistency of
behavior; especially when it's all contained in one window, and logically is
therefore one thing and one type of consistent behavior might be expected.

I just kind of appreciated the effectiveness of scrolling a page at a time,
when looking down what was logically a *list*, rather than logically a
collection of single things.

Each set of semantics makes sense depending on how you interpret the
interface.


> I found it quite disturbing not to be able
> to zoom/scroll via the keyboard if the focus was not on the picture
> itself. And setting the focus to the picture was difficult, as a click
> into the picture area advanced to the next picture already. Moving the
> focus by TAB is also not that convenient as you don't really get visual
> feedback when you reached the picture frame.

focus-follows-mouse is your friend. :)
why click on a window when just pointing to it with a cursor is sufficient?
(with my setup I just nudge the trackball with my pinky finger to point to
the correct xterm, and keep typing).

> But if scrolling up/down by "pages" is really necessary, maybe a [SHIFT|
> CTRL|ALT]-[PgDwn|PgUp] might make sense? It could be implemented with a
> similar behavior as say Mozilla/Firefox to have people get used to it
> quickly...

this is not a bad idea... I can customize imwheel to give different behavior
on different applications... but then I have to deal with logical disconnect
of the scrollwheel doing different things in different applications.

Perhaps we're looking at this wrong; and the PgDn/PgUp behavior is wrong
to begin with. We already have the Spacebar and Backspace to go to
next/previous windows... why not just keep that, and let PgUp/PgDn be used
for jumping a whole page of the list at a time, no matter which window has
focus?

Thanks for your thoughts. We all often forget that the rest of the world
might have very different window manager and user-interface setups and
preferences. :)

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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