Re: usability suggestion for evince

[Jeff Carr <basilarchia gmail com>]

On 08/23/07 15:21, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:

> That would render the main function of the scrollwheel, namely scrolling,
> completely useless. I think your suggestion is by far less obvious for a
> casual user than the current approach. Additionally, the main interface
> interaction with a map is picking a point/area and zooming in/out on that
> point/area, not panning. For a document viewing application the main user
> interaction involves scrolling/panning, not zooming.


You elucidate well. I only wonder if it would be better to have a full
screen full of small pages that a mouse over and then zoom in would
bring you to what you are looking for. I suspect it's more common that
people use the scroll bar for scrolling most of the time. However, I
mostly deal with engineers, so that might not be the case the the
general public.

evince is a excellent pdf viewer -- I use it every day!
Thanks to all the developers out there.