Bug#525600: yelp: find, then scroll down

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

Package: yelp
Version: 2.22.1-8+b1
Severity: wishlist



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages yelp depends on:
ii  docbook-xml            4.5-6             standard XML documentation system,
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-doc-utils        0.12.2-1          a collection of documentation util
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.5-1           high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1.1       GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1+lenny1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.12-1~lenny1  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librarian0             0.8.1-1           Rarian is a documentation meta-dat
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1             library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1.1         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1             1.1.24-2          XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  man-db                 2.5.2-4           on-line manual pager
ii  xml-core               0.12              XML infrastructure and XML catalog
ii  xulrunner-1.9          1.9.0.7-0lenny2   XUL + XPCOM application runner
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages yelp recommends:
pn  doc-base                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  ttf-dejavu                    2.25-3     Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-

yelp suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



When using 'Find', the find bar appears at the bottom of the window. If the expression I searched for is at the bottom of the page, I typically want to scroll down a few lines to get a bit of context. To do that, I click on the bottom scroll arrow.

Once you have clicked the scroll down arrow once, the find bar disappears. This means that the mouse pointer is no longer positioned over the scroll down arrow but over the scroll bar. Consequently, the next click will scroll down by a page, not by one line.

This drives me absolutely nuts, as I intuitively, click, click, click to move down a few lines. But if you do that the search word disappears off the screen! It took me a while to appreciate what was happening. Obviously, I now click the arrow once, then reposition my mouse carefully, and click a couple more times. But that is a nuisance and I need to think about it consciously.

Possible solution: don't hide the find bar after scrolling.