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.
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.
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).
Okay, i filed a KDE HIG bug, as bug 61028.
Thank you. The feature has been implemented now and will appear in KDE 3.2.
Thank you! That was a pretty fast turn-around.