Activate Scroll Key

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

Recently recieved this email.  It's a pretty good self contained suggestion,
so I'm posting it here.

Crackpots, eh?  <whistling innocently>


-----Original Message-----
From: Petry, Hisham <hish@lucent.com>
To: 'effugas@best.com' <effugas@best.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 7:29 AM
Subject: User interface for Gnome


>Hello,
> I'm sure that you get a lot of crackpots (probably not unlike
>myself) who write to you with ideas for improving the user interface of
>Gnome.  Well here is another suggestion.  On the IBM thinkpad there is a
>third mouse button that allows the user to scroll with the mouse.  The user
>can scroll up down, left and right in any window that the mouse is
over(even
>if it's not in focus).  I didn't think that it would be useful until I
>started using it.  You don't realize how much time you spend lining the
>mouse up with the scroll bars.  There are instances that the arrow keys do
>the same thing, but usually the arrow keys only move the cursor, and don't
>really scroll the window plus the window has to be in focus.
>
>I don't know what form this would take in Gnome, whether it would be some
>kind of Ctrl-Shift mouse, or Ctrl-Shift arrow keys.  I can assure you
>however that it is a wonderful and convenient feature for browsing emacs
>files, netscape and anything else with scroll bars.
>
>The only other suggestion that I have is that I (like many others) love the
>keyboard, and any time that I have to move my hands off the keyboard is
>inconvenient, so make sure that everything that can be done with the mouse
>can be done with the keyboard.
>
>Thank you for your time, keep up the good work with Gnome.
>
> Hisham Petry
>