Bug 58826

Summary: implement shift + space to scroll upwards in kdvi
Product: [Unmaintained] kdvi Reporter: Leston Buell <bulbul>
Component: generalAssignee: Stefan Kebekus <kebekus>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mandrake RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Leston Buell 2003-05-23 05:08:18 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs

In kdvi you can use the space bar to scroll downwards. This is the most useful way to read continuous text and to breeze through a document in kdvi because you only need hit the space key about three times per page. However, there is no way to scroll backwards in the same fashion. (Using the up arrow is painfully slow and only allows you to scroll as far as the top of the current page.) KGhostView lets you use shift+space to scroll backwards in the same speed as shift. I am requesting that this be implemented in kdvi, as well.

I think that this would be good for these reasons:

1. It provides consistency between the interfaces of kdvi
   and KGhostView.
2. It´s currently inconvenient to use shift as a scrolling tool, 
   because once you need to scroll back up you have to switch 
   to another scrolling method--either using the up arrow, 
   which won´t let you scroll to a previous page, or using 
   the mouse.
Comment 1 Stefan Kebekus 2003-05-23 11:27:14 UTC 
Thank you for the suggestion. The feature that you requested will (hopefully) be 
implemented in KDE 3.2. 
 
Thanks again, and please keep reporting problems that you encouter. 
 
Stefan.
Comment 2 Leston Buell 2003-07-10 08:56:21 UTC 
Oh, by the way, i just found the following in the KDE User Interface Guidelines:

...if a function exists which has a logical counter-function, the shortcut of
this counter-function is the same as the shortcut of the original function
pressed together with the Shift key.

So, this should give good justification for this feature.

And in other news, i have filed a Gnome HIG bug to get this space/shift+space
behavior enshrined in the HIG:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117114

I will let you know if i also file a bug for the KDE HIG (which does not go into
nearly as much detail).
Comment 3 Leston Buell 2003-07-10 09:12:07 UTC 
Okay, i filed a KDE HIG bug, as bug 61028.
Comment 4 Stefan Kebekus 2003-07-16 18:54:20 UTC 
Thank you. The feature has been implemented now and will appear in KDE 3.2.
Comment 5 Leston Buell 2003-07-16 19:05:44 UTC 
Thank you! That was a pretty fast turn-around.