Re: Dragging with a 2-button mouse



В Втр, 09/06/2009 в 16:10 +0100, Rupert Swarbrick пишет:
> I helped a friend install debian on his laptop yesterday and everything
> went (surprisingly) well, except he was not happy with scrolling in
> evince. In particular, scrolling by dragging wasn't easy with his
> 2-button touchpad: you had to emulate button 2 by clicking both buttons
> and then drag on the touchpad. Frankly, this was tending towards
> gymnastics!
> 
> Thinking about it, I realised that there isn't any meaning currently
> assigned to clicking on the document with the CTRL key down. So I came
> up with a (trivial) patch that treats CTRL+(any button) as button 2.
> 
> Now you can drag around with minimal dexterity :-)
> 
> I've got some questions:
> 
> 1) Is this the correct place to be posting questions/patches etc.?
>    Should I have filed a wishlist bug on the bug tracker instead?

Sure, Ruport! You are welcome!

> 2) Is this approach to fixing the problem reasonable? Or should it be
>    something customisable?
> 3) Do you guys agree that there's actually a problem?
> (of course, I hope that the answer to the last will be yes...)

I'm not that sure, we have a similar bugs about this in a database:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557956

see also 165155, especially

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165155#c21

But it's mostly a touchscreen problem on small devices. 

For a touchpad on laptop I'd better setup the scrolling area on
touchpad.

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