Bug#414128: eog: Scroll wheel behaves non-intuitively

[Bas Wijnen]

Package: eog
Version: 2.16.3-3
Severity: wishlist

When there are a lot of images to be viewed, there is a scrollbar in the
collection window.  I find it intuitive to hover the pointer over that
window, and use the mouse wheel to control the scroll bar.  However, it
instead switches between images (and if the selected image isn't
currenly in view, it even moves the view back to the newly selected
image, far away from where I wanted to go).

I agree that switching between images is a useful operation, however
even after quite some time of using eog, I still make the mistake
regularly to try scrolling with the mouse wheel.  To me, this clearly
means that it would be better to follow the standard gnome interface
style, and use the mouse wheel for scrolling the (vertical) scrollbar if
there is one.  If there is none, as in the image window, it's fine to
use it for other things (like scaling).  (Actually, by zooming in there
does appear a vertical scroll bar there, too, but that only happens
after using the wheel for zooming, which makes it quite a different
situation.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages eog depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.16.1-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.17-1     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexif12                   0.6.13-5     library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.16.1-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.0-4    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.6-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2          2.14.3-2     Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.16.0-2     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.14.0-2     A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0          2.12.1-7     The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0        2.12.1-4     GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.14.1-2     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.14.2-6   GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.8.20-7     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-13        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1                    1.15-1       Color management library
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.14.8-5     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-5    X11 client-side library

Versions of packages eog recommends:
ii  librsvg2-common               2.14.4-2   SAX-based renderer library for SVG

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