Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 63027
Horizontal scrolling with mouse by positioning the pointer over thehorizontal scrollbar
Last modified: 2007-07-18 14:03:48 UTC
A feature of all Linux GUIs ( Both Gnome and KDE; may be this is a feature of X server than WM )is that by moving the mouse wheel with the pointer on the scroll bar one can scroll the pages unlike in MS Windows.This way one can scroll both horizontally and vertically. OOo in both Gnome and KDE doesn't follow this common nice feature of the X system. In OOo vertical scrolling like this works, but no horizontal scrolling. Here I reproduce my posting on the fedora list and the answer to it which could be interesting.---------- Message: 9 Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:18:47 -0700 From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> Subject: Re: OOo and Firefox in Linux - Unrequited Love To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1141820327.17832.101.camel@lin- workstation.azapple.com> Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:20 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote: > Hello List, > > > I find it baffling that the Office suite of choice for all Unixes,OOo > should not implement scrolling horizontally using the mousewheel when the > mouse is on the scroll bar in Linux.Ditto with Firefox. > > All GUIs in Linux, both under KDE and Gnome,implement this.I use Opera to > browse, which is not a great darling of Linux users,that implements this. > But the great darlings-OOo,Firefox-do not really care to implement this > nice unique feature of Linux Desktop. Also, look at their implementation > printer interfaces which is inferior to any native application of both KDE > & Gnome. > > It appears from the experience of using these applications on Windows and > Linux that both these darlings do not care enough for linux though Linux > showers them with so much love and attention. > > These are my feelings.I am trying to share and see what the community has > to say. ---- I don't know about what the community might say, but I would say that I find it baffling that someone would rather choose a public forum to announce their desires rather than go into redhat's bugzilla or Oo's bug reporting tool and make an entry. It's not a bug if it's not in bugzilla...it's only someone pissing in the wind. Craig ------------------------ This defect exists in all versions of OO in all distributions of Linux ( May be wherever X server is in question ) Really I feel this negligence of it's own is a shame on the part of OO and correction should not even demand any great work! Parameshwara Bhat
This defect exists in all components of OO, not just writer. Parameshwara Bhat
Reassigned to SBA.
May I suggest change issue type to "enhancement" and set OS to "All"?
Confirming, changing to enhancement, OS to All, Component to ui.
SBA: Duplicate. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 21925 ***
SBA: Closed. Note: HOW to trigger horizontal scrolling would be subject of the specification. (i.e. Shift+Scrollwheel could be a solution because "when the mouse hovers over the bar" would easily lead to "arbitrary effects")