Re: Using the middle mouse button for scrolling a web page

[Crispin Flowerday <gnome flowerday cx>]

Samuel Abels wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Lately I have been working a lot with the SVG editor "Inkscape" and I
> noticed that they use the middle mouse button for shifting the canvas
> view around. You hold the mouse button and shift the page wherever you
> want to have it.
>
> A minute later I was browsing the web with Epiphany and noticed that I
> tried to do the same, moving the web page up and down. This is really
> catchy and feels pretty "natural" to me - pressing the "finger" down and
> shifting the paper wherever it belongs. I would love to see that in a
> browser ;-). Any thoughts?

This should be very easy to write as an extension, Galeon already the 
code to do the scrolling, so copying that shouldn't be too hard.

Crispin