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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Jan 25 18:05:11 +0000 2011 ------- martyn01 wrote: "enabling smooth scrolling has nothing to do with the problem." right! "It's the way a document scrolls a number of lines at a time, rather than one, when navigating it using the up and down arrow keys that's infuriating." Yes. To be more precise: there are configurations where pressing up or down arrow key does not behave like mouse clicking at top or bottom of scroll bar (which behaves correctly) but instead using the arrow key moves the text and mouse cursor a much larger, unpredictable amount, requiring visual search to sort out what has happened. I suspect that at some distant past time a clever programmer with little understanding of human interface issues thought that would be a useful facility and went to some trouble to insert it, without making it an option that can be turned off. I can't see any reason for breaking the tight correspondence between the good behaviour produced by using mouse at top or bottom of scroll bar, and using Up and Down arrow keys. (Probably most users use mouse only and so never complain about this behaviour.) There should always be a keyboard-only alternative to something that can be done with the mouse. I suspect that in this case restoring the correspondence should be trivial (replacing one function call by another that is already in use, namely move text cursor up or down one line, and if necessary bring the new line (and NOTHING MORE) onto the screen. If the text pointer moves onto a footnote just bring that line up anyway -- don't try to be clever and jump over the footnote (as suggested by Pesala in 2006!). If the new line is blank, just show the new blank line, and let the user decide what to do next. Providing an option that prevents scrolling off one page onto another as some PDF viewers do is another matter. Then moving to the next or previous page would be a different action (e.g. PageUp or PageDown). But for 'continuous' scrolling, don't insert discontinuities. This is not revolutionary stuff: it's what OO does with mouse and scroll wheel actions anyway, and every other text editor I have used also does. So, let's please have it with arrow keys also. Thanks. Not only is it illogical, it's also difficult to focus on the line that you need to be looking at when things are jumping around! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
