[scribus] Link Text behavior on laptop

[Scribus User]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Michael Taylor-Noonan <
taylornoonan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/18/2016 03:46 PM, Michael Taylor-Noonan wrote:
>
> My first post, please tell me if this is inappropriate on this mailing
>> list.
>>
>> (First, a huge thanks to all who helped develop Scribus... I'm switching
>> from a proprietary DTP program, and find it easy to use and powerful.)
>>
>> Now my question. I usually use 1.5.1 on a Win 10 laptop, with wireless
>> mouse. Every so often I forget my mouse and use the trackpad. When
>> linking text using the trackpad, you cannot scroll down to a different
>> page . I would have thought as soon as your mouse pointer moves to the
>> scroll bar it should change back to pointer from the link text. But it
>> doesn't. Am I missing something?
>>
>
> This is the perfect place for this question.
>
> Trying this out in Win7 and 1.5.2 (desktop), I don't see the problem
> with the pointer.
> I do see that neither PgDn or arrow keys work, though. What does work
> with a mouse is the scrollwheel, so you might try the scrolling area of
> the trackpad to see if that works. Otherwise, try clicking on the next
> page arrow at the bottom of the Scribus window, even if it doesn't
> change to a pointer.
>
> Seems odd, wonder if this is some Win 10 issue...
>
> Greg
>
> Thanks, Greg. The idea about clicking on the next page at the bottom of
> the Scribus works!
> Michael
>

Scribus is no stranger to trackpad issues (see
https://bugs.scribus.net/search.php?tag_string=trackpad) .

Scribus on a macbookpro trackpad is really hard to use because of the above
issues described. When I use the trackpad on Scribus now, i feel like i'm
compensating a lot (moving much more slowly and deliberately) based on
previous problems that created a headache to fix. For example, scrolling
the Properties Palette without being mindful will trigger all sorts of
spinbox mischief. Or if I zoom in or out, because of that trackpad zoom bug
(https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12078) i compensate in this weird 2
finger tap-dance (literally) to get it to shimmy and work the way I need it
to.

Main issue this is still a problem is that the devs don't own a macbook/pro
so they can't fix it so that would be something useful the community could
rally around. In fact there is a page on the wiki about that:
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus_Team_Wishlist_from_the_Community

Per OPs email, I'm 'glad' to see that the problem doesn't only exist in
OSX. This means that there might be fix for OSX as well on the horizon.
Cheers,
/Kunda
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