Re: Activate Scroll Key

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: tom@lemuria.org <tom@lemuria.org>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Activate Scroll Key


>>  I strongly disagree with taking away the middle-button-paste function. I
>>  would hate you forever, needing it quite often in my daily work.
>
>A lot of X users are used to pasting text using mouse button 2, so we
>cannot remove that functionality.


Agreed.

>Applications like the GIMP where scrolling makes sense but inserting
>text does not (i.e. the GIMP's image windows) can use mouse button 2
>for scrolling.


Nuh-uh.  Big time consistency issue.  Whatever is selected in GIMP should
paste on the mouse 2, or scrolling should work everywhere.  I agree with the
person who said we should have remappable mouse buttons, and I think the
default, if anything, needs to be either scroll or doubleclick.

>If it does make sense to insert text *and* scroll, we could use mouse
>button 2 for inserting text and shift+mouse button 2 to scroll.  This
>is analogous to the way you use shift plus the mouse buttons when you
>run a terminal program that supports the mouse inside an Xterm.


Mayyyyyybe.  This might confuse users, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense
re: the relationship between paste and scroll.


>If nobody objects to this, I will put it in the UI Guidelines later.
>
>  Federico
>
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