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Juge

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Monday, February 16th 2004, 8:31pm

Shift and ctrl + mouse wheel operations swapped

In KDE 3.1.4 ctrl + mouse wheel scrolls whole page up and down. Using shift + mouse wheel you can increase/decrease font size. And now in KDE 3.2 those keys are swapped. How to change them back?

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Monday, February 16th 2004, 8:57pm

Re: Shift and ctrl + mouse wheel operations swapped

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In KDE 3.1.4 ctrl + mouse wheel scrolls whole page up and down. Using shift + mouse wheel you can increase/decrease font size. And now in KDE 3.2 those keys are swapped. How to change them back?

AFAIK you can't unless you patch the source code.

This change was made after a usability discussion.
The main argument was consistency and compliance
with the guideline:
Shift + <key (or mouse button)> will increase the effect of <key>
(e.g. scrolling -> fast scrolling),
Ctrl + <key> will alter the effect of <key>.

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Thursday, February 19th 2004, 7:40pm

Thanks for you reply. Too bad, that doesn't improve my web browsing usability.

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Thursday, February 19th 2004, 11:07pm

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Thanks for you reply. Too bad, that doesn't improve my web browsing usability.

I didn't like that change either at first, but I got used to it surprisingly quickly.
I hope you will, too.