#8005 BLOC 8.2.0 (: Read.activity gamepad keys behaviour changed to unusable in ebook mode

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#8005: Read.activity gamepad keys behaviour changed to unusable in ebook mode
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 Reporter:  thomaswamm     |         Owner:  rwh                              
     Type:  defect         |        Status:  new                              
 Priority:  blocker        |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)             
Component:  read-activity  |       Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:  Read ebook     |   Next_action:  diagnose                         
 Verified:  0              |     Blockedby:                                   
 Blocking:                 |  
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 joyride-2301 testing ebook mode:  can no longer scroll thru ebook using
 gamepad keys. Now Square = zoom_in, and Checkmark = zoom_out (which is not
 very useful).

 UpArrow and DownArrow do scrolling, but in ebook mode the keyboard is
 covered.

 In previous official builds I was able to read ebooks in ebook mode and
 could scroll thru the ebook using the gamepad keys.  Why did the user
 interface change?

 By the way, I think most Activities would benefit from a Help menu which
 reveals secrets such as keyboard equivalents for menu commands. Why do I
 have to learn by trial-and-error what the gamepad keys do?

 I suspect you guys deliberately insert obvious bugs just to see if anyone
 in the user community is doing testing for you. Well this testing and
 reporting is costing me over an hour of my time!

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