Launcher - Unity mouse wheel scroll too small

Bug #906072 reported by Oleksandr Senkovych
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
Fix Released
Medium
John Lea
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Bilal Akhtar
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Bilal Akhtar

Bug Description

Mouse scroll step when cursor is over the unity bar is very small, in fact it's completely unusable - you have to spin wheel multiple times to simply switch to the next icon.
It would be great if one mouse wheel event would scroll for one unity's element.

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Desired solution:

- The speed at which the mouse wheel scrolls the Launcher (when the Launcher contains folded icons) needs to be significantly increased, at least by 2x.

- Experiment with setting the distance moved per mouse wheel revolution to equal that of Firefox. This may be slightly too fast but it would be good to test.

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Oleksandr Senkovych (blackjack) wrote :
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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

I also noticed that. It sure needs to be a little faster.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

needs design input.

Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
John Lea (johnlea)
description: updated
tags: added: udp
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity:
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee: nobody → John Lea (johnlea)
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
summary: - Unity mouse wheel scroll too small
+ Launcher - Unity mouse wheel scroll too small
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Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote :

Mouse wheel is normally scrolling down three lines of normal text, at least that is what firefox does.

Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
assignee: nobody → Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → 6.4
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.4.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (6.4.0-0ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * New upstream release.
    - Software Center add to launcher icon animation is delayed when the
      launcher is in auto-hide mode (LP: #1012896)
    - Home lens: Applications show up in Music category (LP: #1040101)
    - WARN unity.hud.hud Hud.cpp:185 Attempted to close the hud connection
      without starting it (LP: #1039451)
    - Text field textures do not update when maximum width changes.
      (LP: #1037187)
    - An application is closed if manually removed from favorites on gsettings
      (LP: #1032157)
    - The switcher (Alt+Tab) is showing incorrect windows after using Deskop
      Wall (Ctrl+alt+<direction>) (LP: #1031959)
    - Dragging icons to reorder -away from launcher causes the dragged icon
      image edges to fade away(cut off) (LP: #1026247)
    - Screen flickers when changing launcher icon size. (LP: #1024113)
    - Arrow for indicating lenses points empty space on alt+F2 (LP: #998752)
    - [previews] Music album tracks do not have a scroll-bar when needed.
      (LP: #1039462)
    - [USE_MODERN_COMPIZ_GL] With unity scrollbar support enabled, hotplugging
      monitors doesn't work (LP: #1039410)
    - [previews] Track titles aren't escaped (LP: #1039020)
    - Launcher - Edge of tiles (with backlight disabled) is too opaque
      (LP: #1038138)
    - [USE_MODERN_COMPIZ_GL] Benchmark window appears behind the Unity shell
      now (LP: #1036609)
    - [GLES] [USE_MODERN_COMPIZ_GL] Unity shell (Launcher and Panel) are
      missing if framebuffer_object is disabled (LP: #1036569)
    - [USE_MODERN_COMPIZ_GL] Benchmark window is mostly invisible, shrunken
      and displaced (LP: #1036528)
    - Unity quicklist menu items leak memory (LP: #1036338)
    - Icon resized between 32 - 48 - 64 look jaggy (LP: #1036231)
    - [Regression] Hideous low-res icon when using the HUD with autohide
      enabled. (LP: #1035951)
    - [regression] Selecting an item of the BFB quicklist when the dash is
      open, causes it to hide (LP: #1035641)
    - Launcher - Switch on "backlight toggles" mode by default (LP: #1033866)
    - Unity spends 15% of time in PlacesGroup::ComputeContentSize when opening
      dash (LP: #1033306)
    - Launcher dragged icon is not redrawn when the mouse pointer is not moved
      (LP: #1032700)
    - Bottom - Up key navigation is broken in dash filterbar (LP: #1028810)
    - Launcher - SD card can not be ejected by drag-n-dropping to trash
      (LP: #960910)
    - Alt-tab - The app name in the integrated menu should not change during
      Alt-tab switching (LP: #950782)
    - Dash - If only one Category Header is displayed, it should be
      automatically expanded (LP: #950710)
    - Launcher - Unity mouse wheel scroll too small (LP: #906072)
    - boot moves desktop icons (LP: #886667)
    - Alt-tab - Reduce the spread delay for all items other than the initial
      item the select lands on after alt-tab opens (LP: #838232)
    - Launcher - Launcher should never autohide when the cursor is positioned
      over the Launcher (e.g. When ...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in ayatana-design:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
tags: added: reviewedbydesignq
removed: udp
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