Re: Wheeled Mouse

["Haukur Hreinsson" <hawk london is>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: 5. ágúst 1998 21:30
Subject: Re: Wheeled Mouse


>"Haukur Hreinsson" <hawk@london.is> writes:
>
>> I agree. Additionally, I find scrollbars just generally ugly because they
>> destroy symmetry. They also take up space better used for content.
Vertical
>> and horizontal scrollbars for the same canvas are always a lame solution.
>> You need to aim for and drag not one but two narrow and possibly very
short
>> scroll handles. There's gotta be a better solution. Are we using the
third
>> button for anything vital? Howsabout using it for scrolling in all GNOME
>> apps (probably all gtk+ apps)?
>
>Third button (i.e., right button) tends to be used for a drop down
>menu, so making it scroll would be very confusing, I suspect.
>Middle-button drag would be OK.  The Gimp already does that, and many
>Tk applications (like the excellent TkMan, which I may have mentioned
>before) do this, since it happens to be easy in Tcl/Tk.
>
>That's not so convenient for people with 2-button mice, but it
>wouldn't hurt them, since the scrollbars would still be there.


Sorry, I thought the right button was 2 and the middle button was 3.
(Figuring a two-button mouse would have buttons 1 and 2, not 1 and 3).
Obviously I was mistaken, as xev has shown me.