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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: mouse wheel scrolling
From:       Bryce Nesbitt <bryce () obviously ! com>
Date:       2001-12-30 23:52:26
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I rather like scroll by "n minus 2" lines.  Scrolling by full page is
disorienting.  Scrolling as QT/Konq does now wears out your fingers.

			-Bryce

"Gerold J. Wucherpfennig" wrote:
> 
> It would be really nice if QT3 supported scrolling 1/2 a page by mouse wheel.
> 
> Wheel-scrolling a fixed number of lines doesn't fit,
> because of different window sizes.
> 
> Small windows:
> You scroll too many lines or even more than a whole page.
> 
> Large windows:
> You have to use the wheel so many times that your hand starts aching.
> 
> How to implement it?
> Scrolling half a page isn't that difficult. You have to get to know which
> amount of lines are displayed at the current window size. Then do an integer
> division with 2 (CurrentLines / 2 + CurrentLines % 2 ) and you've got the
> number of lines to scroll   8)
> 
> TIA,
> 
> a (prime-time) KDE3 user
> 
> 
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