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Re: bug in gitk: history moves right when scrolling up and down with mouse wheel

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NKNeal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 8, 2011, 00:17 UTC
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On 1/7/2011 2:24 PM, Stefan Haller wrote:
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> Neal Kreitzinger<nkreitzinger@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Actually, I've wanted the ability to scroll left and right in the
>> history pane for quite a while.  Resorting to shrinking the fontsize and
>> the other columns only goes so far when trying to see a list of
>> equivalent refs.  If the ability to scroll left and right can be kept
>> that would be cool.
>
> Interesting.  On the Mac it *is* possible to scroll left and right, and
> it absolutely drives me nuts, so I disabled it in my private build.
> I guess it's ok with a mouse, where shift-wheel scrolls horizontally,
> but on a track-pad with two-finger scrolling, where you can scroll both
> horizontally and vertically with a single guesture, it is completely
> undesirable.
>

I agree. What would be ideal is a left-right scroll bar like the up-down scrollbar.

v/r, Neal

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  1. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 7, 2011
  2. Neal KreitzingerJan 7, 2011
  3. Uwe Kleine-KönigJan 7, 2011
  4. Stefan HallerJan 7, 2011
  5. Neal KreitzingerJan 8, 2011

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