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June 16, 2020
Question

Smooth scrolling Lightroom Classic library de-activated?

  • June 16, 2020
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Hi!

I was always a little disappointed with the mouse scrolling performance in the grid view of the Lightroom Classic library. 
It "jumps" from line to line, instead of scrolling smoothly, which makes it's quite difficult locating pictures while scrolling... 
But I always assumed there was some (technical) reason for that. 

Turn's out there isn't...(?)

When I have Chrome opened in the foreground I can scroll smoothly through my Lightroom Classic library in the background. As soon as I switch back to Lightroom Classic as my active task, scrolling is immediately "unsmoothed". 

(I have a Logitech Master MX and Smooth Scrolling activated, als well as the Logitec Smooth Scrolling chrome-plugin installed).

Is smooth scrolling deliberately de-activated in Lightroom Classic? If yes, WHY?

Or is there an option available to activate smooth scrolling in Lightroom Classic that I've missed?

As I searched the Internet for a solution, it didn't seem as if I was the the only one having this issue, but I guess everybody gave up a while ago (like me...).

What do you think? Can you replicate my "findings".

Or is there a reason for this behavior?

 

{Moved from Lightroom Cloud to Lightroom Classic Forum by Moderator} 

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5 replies

bajanstefan18
Inspiring
June 22, 2023

Glad I found this thread. The issue is largely confined to the develop left and right panels, right mostly. The mouse is trying to grab the sliders as you scroll. The smart thing to do would be disable this when scrolling quickly and let people precious place the mouse on sliders they want to adjust. This is an extremely jarring change when it was implemented. 

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
June 22, 2023

For those on this thread if you enable "Scroll by Row" in the View menu, do you see any difference?

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Known Participant
June 22, 2023

How is "scroll by row" supposed to enable smooth scrolling?? It actually is supposed to do the opposite, if enabled. The individual thumbnails - or the grid so to speak - stays in the eaxct same place. 

The funny thing is that , if the browser (Edge in my case) is active, LR scrolls smooth, but extremly fast, actually unusably fast.

Known Participant
June 22, 2023

You do not appear to have answered the question I asked. 


No??

 

Your question: 

"do you see any difference?"

To quote myself:

" The individual thumbnails - or the grid so to speak - stays in the eaxct same place. 

The funny thing is that , if the browser (Edge in my case) is active, LR scrolls smooth, but extremly fast, actually unusably fast."

Those are the things that are different to not enabling "scroll by row".

 

Participant
June 20, 2023

All the same here. I'm on Windows 11 with the last version of Lightroom.
If I click on Chrome and scroll on Lightroom, it goes super smooth, but as soon as I click on Lightroom, it jumps the lines. It's dizzying and hard to select the images properly; sometimes I miss them and have to come back and resend them.
Please Adobe!! Fix it.

Per Berntsen
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 20, 2023

Im seeing the same thing with the MX Master 3 on Windows 10.

Smooth scrolling with Chrome, Firefox or Edge in the foreground.

Per Berntsen
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 20, 2023

@Rikk Flohr: Photography  – can you take a look at this?

Participating Frequently
March 20, 2021

Completely the same behviour on my system, same Mouse and LR version is 10.2.

If you know good old Google Picasa we can see how smooth scrolling could be...

Adobe, please fix this.

Known Participant
June 16, 2020

I don´t have a solution for you, but just want to let you know, it´s the same on my system with the Logitech Master MX and my Edge browser (Win 10). As long as Edge is the active application I can scroll smoothly in LR.