Bug 98754 (Smooth-Scroll) - [META] Smooth scroll in whole LibreOffice suite
Summary: [META] Smooth scroll in whole LibreOffice suite
Status: NEW
Alias: Smooth-Scroll
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Depends on: 35287 40917 83317 123181 134324 138629 140351 141668 162110 98755 139917 141283
Blocks: Scrolling-PageUpDown
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Reported: 2016-03-18 17:51 UTC by Yan Pas
Modified: 2024-09-30 04:50 UTC (History)
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Description Yan Pas 2016-03-18 17:51:25 UTC
Add smooth scroll in whole LO suite. There were no report for this request, so I open it.
Comment 1 --- deleted --- 2016-04-21 04:04:04 UTC
scrolling with libreoffice 5 on windows 10 looks horrible right now.
Comment 2 Pierre Lepage 2017-07-20 10:01:38 UTC
The scrolling in calc is done by jumping 36 lines (I'm on Kubuntu) and 20 lines in Writer. It's not very practical. To read on Google, the problem seems systemic to LibreOffice and OpenOffice.
Comment 3 Pedro 2018-07-06 14:06:41 UTC
Oh, how wish smooth scrolling was present in LO...
Comment 4 Metal450 2018-11-03 03:10:09 UTC
The extremely choppy/clunky scrolling was the first thing I noticed upon installing & trying out LibreOffice.  Trying to navigate a document on a laptop with touchpad gestures is *MUCH* more cumbersome than Office.  Fingers really crossed this gets addressed at some point...
Comment 5 Michael Warner 2021-12-06 14:19:10 UTC
Just a note for people, this meta bug-tracker is for the feature of smooth scrolling (meaning scrolling by pixels instead of lines of text or rows of cells). For issues with performance while scrolling (lag, choppiness, high CPU usage, etc) please use Bug 146014. Thank you.
Comment 6 Pablo Carnota 2022-09-18 08:54:21 UTC
Please add smooth scrolling to LO, I frequently use this software for class presentations and this functionality would greatly improve the experience
Comment 7 miafr30m 2024-06-14 09:41:32 UTC
How scrolling currently works: 
Jumps a set amount of pixels at a time, and varies time between making these jumps to adjust scrolling speed. I haven't seen this archaic style of scrolling for honestly decades outside of LibreOffice.

How scrolling should work:
Moves viewer on every frame (e.g. 60fps for a 60hz monitor) and adjusts number of pixels traveled based on scrolling velocity. Hopefully would allow precise movements of any size if hardware supports it. 



In my opinion this should be the number one priority for development after critical bugs. It is unbelievable how bad this. It is genuinely hard to keep track of where I am in the page in some situations. I would suggest changing the severity to Major.