Two motives of annoyance

[renaud at olgiati.fr]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:36:34 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
killermoehre at gmx.net wrote:

> > Using the mouse cursor on the side-bar of a window (not ON the side
> > bar cursor) to move up or down in the display becomes unmanageable
> > when the window displays a content of several thousands lines. How
> > will I prevent this "acceleration" from raising my blood pressure ?

> what behavior do you expect? And in what application, as your
> described behavior could be toolkit dependent?

I would expect, when I click anywhere below the side-bar cursor, for
the display to go down by one screen height

> Also a screenshot/screencast would be nice to see your issue.

I attach two screenshots of the Synaptic package managerd displaying
some 18000+ packages; first one grabbed when opening the program, the
second after clicking once at the bottom of the side-bars of both panes.

Hope it helps you !

Renaud.
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