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GNOME Papers Document Viewer Making Progress As GTK4-Based Evince Fork (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's much slower than Evince

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Scrolling(amount of scroll per turn of the scroll wheel/swipe on touchpad) has been intentionally slowed down. Another issue is when you scroll fast, the scrolling is stuttery because papers tries to render on the fly when scrolling. There is an open issue to discuss whether this should be the behaviour or not.

But don't worry too much. It was much slower a month ago and yet progress is being made at a great pace and hence I expect it to get better in the near future. Pablo Correa Gomez(the lead dev of Papers) is doing some great work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Scroll speed will still be lower in papers because of changes in gtk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh ok. Are these changes tailored towards making touchscreen usage better¿?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it was done to make code overall nicer: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/4508#note_1416720

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That was an incredibly poised and informative response by Carlos. Thanks for linking it. Cheers