On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 15:57, Calum Benson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2 Aug 2010, at 08:35, Andre Majorel wrote: > > > What would you use in an application to scroll in two dimensions > > and zoom in/out with the mouse wheel ? > > FWIW, the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines recommends: > > * Ctrl+scrollwheel-up should zoom into the window or control under the > mouse pointer, and Ctrl+scrollwheel-down should zoom out. Zooming in this > way should not move keyboard focus to the window or control being zoomed. > > They have no current recommendation for horizontal scrolling. > > < > http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-mouse.html.en#mouse-buttons > > > i'd say the respective app/viewer should decide in context if horizontal scrolling is necessary and if it should simply be a modification of CTRL+scrollwheel such as CTRL+Shift+scrollwheel e.g. Shift is a typical modifier of case, in this particular case we would use it to alternate between vertical and horizontal axis. I think this would also make a good mental model overall..
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