[Epiphany] Re: ui improvement requests

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Jens Knutson writes: 

> On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 15:39, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
>> On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 18:37, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
>> > I agree but alot of people (just from viewing what i consider to be normal 
>> > windows users) do use the scroll wheel to scroll. Maintaining a physical 
>> > connection between the mouse wheel button and scrolling is a good idea imo.  
>> 
>> I use the scroll wheel to scroll, too. That in no way stops me from
>> using the middle button to paste. wheel == rotate. button == click.
>> difference. See?
> 
> Watching this thread, I find myself strongly agreeing with both sides -
> Dave is right that autoscroll is more consistant with the middle mouse
> button's scroll feature, and with the fact that it's the default in IE. 
> However, much as I know he's right, I HATE THAT. ;-)  No middle click to
> do a unix paste would be enough to make me consider switching back to
> galeon, and I *really* don't want to do that. 
> 
> Is it possible we've stumbled onto something that maybe warrants a
> hidden preference?  I know they suck, but they do have their place, and
> I think that having a hidden preference for this might *suck less* than
> just hardcoding autoscroll (or middle-click-paste for that matter). 
> 
>  - jck 
> 

THere is a hidden pref. Interface->Middle_click_open_url, and no one is 
trying to remove it :) 

dave