Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org
Autoscroll happens, for example, when you are trying to select multiple
pages of text and you click and drag the mouse to the bottom of the
window; the scroll function activates so that you can select more text.
However, when autoscroll is triggered like this it scrolls so fast that
it is useless unless I want to select the entire rest of the document.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Open a multiple-page document in OpenOffice Writer.
2) Activate autoscroll by attempting to select multiple pages of text through
click-and-drag; or better yet, by attempting to move previously selected text
to a location on another page using click-and-drag.
3) Observe that without careful mouse positioning, it is very difficult to use
autoscroll to scroll to a specific page and location, unless that location is
at the very bottom or the very top of the document (where scrolling stops).
Suggestions:
-> A "smooth scrolling" feature would make Writer's autoscroll function more
usable, but could take significant resources to make this happen.
-> Autoscroll's default scrolling increment could be set to 50% of its current
value, making it easier for the eye to follow the scroll and easier for the
user to stop scrolling at the desired location.
Ubuntu version: 8.04 Hardy
OOo version: 2.4.1
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 29 12:22:30 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686
** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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OpenOffice Writer autoscroll is too fast to be useful
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244008
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