Bug 309836 - AutoScroll resets after scrolling with most other scrolling methods
Summary: AutoScroll resets after scrolling with most other scrolling methods
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.15.2
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2012-11-10 02:17 UTC by Avihay
Modified: 2012-11-10 15:44 UTC (History)
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Description Avihay 2012-11-10 02:17:24 UTC
If this is a wish, then I'm sorry for mislabelling as a bug.
when I use autoscroll (shift+arrows), I sometimes get to a part I wish to skip fast (image, page break etc).
Trying to skip forwards with most other methods resets the autoscroll state and speed to inactive and 0 respectively, so that autoscroll stops (might very well be desireable), and hitting autoscroll pause/resume (shift/ctrl) does nothing, as if you didn't use autoscroll, and to get back, you need to start autoscroll again (shift+arrows), which is annoying when autoscrolling in any speed other then 1 (as in pressing shift + arrow only once).

Methods that reset autoscrolling: mouse-drag with the browse tool, page up/down, arrow up/down, arrow left/right, space/backspace.
Methods that only pause autoscrolling (can be resumed later with shift): Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+end.
Methods that don't change autoscrolling: Mouse wheel scroll/Axis Z, Previous and next actions from the toolbar or Go menu, Forward (default alt+shift+right), Backward (default alt+shift+left)

The only way to skip without resetting the speed to 0, and without lifting a hand from the keyboard is the forward/back shortcuts, and via the menu, and the jumps are limited to specific places (beginning of all pages, or places you scrolled to before), which is undesirable most times.

Please fix any way you see fit, or ask the community.

Points to ponder:
* Should there be horizontal autoscroll?
* Is this issue effecting Okular active?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a document that doesn't fit the whole screen vertically.
2.Start autoscrol going, preferably in a speed higher then one click
3.Use a resetting scroll method (drag with mouse or use arrow keys, or page up/down or space/backspace)
Actual Results:  
Autoscroll stops and resuming by one key press fails/puts you at speed 1.

Expected Results:  
Either autoscroll continues to scroll from the new point in the document
Or autoscroll stops but pressing shift/control resumes autoscroll at the same speed it was before
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2012-11-10 15:44:37 UTC
The fact that autoscroll stops is a feature (i.e. it's been programmed to act like that).

Moving this as a wish.