[Konsole-devel] [Bug 280637] Doing shift + PageUp scrolls the text buffer by only half a page

[Klick Back]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280637


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--- Comment #2 from Klick Back <klickback hotmail com>  2011-08-24 06:02:52 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Yeah, I do observe the same behaviour. However,  that is exactly how KDE3
> konsole scrolls (or even older versions which I have no experience with). And
> that is how xterm and linux console scroll when Shift+PgUp/PgDn is
> pressed(correct me).gnome-terminal does scroll full page.

That is indeed correct. xterm and Linux console also behave like konsole, while
gnome-terminal, rxvt, lxterminal, xfce terminal and FreeBSD console do a full
scroll. So I see no 'standard' way of doing this.


> If reason #1 is the truth, then changing current behavior is not a big deal.
> But if reason #2 is the truth, changing it might make many users unhappy and
> open new reports to revert the change.
> 
> So here is the typical question: Is it a feature, or bug ?

I talked to some people on #kde on freenode about this. They confirm the
behaviour.
One person said he was also irritated while another actually _liked_ the
half-scroll behaviour because it provides context, others didn't seem to care
either way. 

About the 'context' problem with full scroll, one option is that for 'n' number
of rows in your window, doing a PgUp scrolls up by (n - 1) number of rows. This
is how most web browsers behave.


So I am not sure if changing the default to full scroll is an option since
there are people who prefer this behaviour.
On the other hand, a full scroll is also how other KDE applications behave -
most web browsers do the same.


IMO the best approach right now seems to be to keep the half scroll as default,
while add an option for full scroll in the preferences.

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