The tutorial and keys reference look nice but are a pain in the ass to scroll, especially in zoom-in. Until today.
* Previously, Inkscape canvas tended to "stick" after mouse release when you were panning a complex document by middle mouse button. This is now fixed.
* Accelerated scrolling: if you press and hold Ctrl+arrow to scroll canvas, Inkscape will gradually speed up scrolling. This makes navigating in complex documents much faster, without losing precision.
The power of this acceleration is given by the pref value options.scrollingacceleration. I set it to 2 by default; please test and report which value works best for you (edit your ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml). The value of 1 means no acceleration, but even at 1 it still scrolls faster than before because it gobbles sequences of keypresses and, for n key events, will scroll once by scroll_step*n instead of scrolling n times by scroll_step.
I plan to apply the same acceleration approach to areas other than scrolling, such as zooming and nudging by keyboard. I will also fix sticking after mouse release in dragging objects and nodes, freehand drawing, etc. Suggestions welcome.
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