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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Shift-Wheel zoom support in KHTML
From:       Germain Garand <germain () ebooksfrance ! com>
Date:       2002-08-12 1:26:54
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Le Lundi 12 Août 2002 02:07, Zack Rusin a écrit :
> On Sunday 11 August 2002 19:10, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Monday 12 August 2002 01:06, Nadeem Hasan wrote:
> >

> > Looks like Shift-Wheel might become a standard for zooming then?
> > Maybe KTextBrowser and KTextEdit could honor that as well then.
>
> I know it's a little late in the game to complain, and I'm sorry, but is
> shift modifier really the best choice? Mozilla uses shift+wheel keys to
> scroll the page by the smallest possible margin and we use shift+arrow
> keys for automatic scrolling already. It would seem to me like the
> shift key is always associated with some type of scrolling behavior.
> Couldn't we use a different modifier? Like alt ?
>
> Zack

I'll second that. 
I think SHIFT is in general a "slight" modifier, something that affects an 
event in a non-radical way.
Maybe it would be wiser to keep it for a future smooth wheel scroll that would 
be consistent with shift+up key ?
I would propose something like CTRL+SHIFT for such a big behaviour change.

Cheers,
G.

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