Forcing Gimp to behave better with + and - zoom keys?

[rich2005]

I am not a great lover of Microsoft click-n-wish, very old school. However for Gimp the mouse scroll wheel covers a lot of adjustments.

As well as ctrl-scroll for zoom
The tools - scroll through the grouped tool sets.
The tool options - scroll to adjust the sliders, ctrl-scroll for fast
Position and Size in selection tool options again ctrl-scroll for large increments.
The font icon in the tool options, scroll through the fonts to see the change in the on canvas text tool.
Layer Modes - scroll through those to quickly check their effect.
Image tabs - more than one image open, scroll through the tabs
Dock tabs - scroll through those.
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