Re: Wheeled Mouse (eight-way scrolling)

["Joe Neal" <nealjb purdue edu>]

The mouse wheel is great and I miss it a lot under x.  That's one reason i
still have 98 on my machine ( i know, i know).

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Wheeled Mouse (eight-way scrolling)


>Some uninformed input from a user who recently bought a wheeled mouse
>thingy (MouseMan Plus, so I have the thumb button, too).
>
>Every widget that has the potential to scroll should let me bind events
>(keys or buttons) to a scroll in the various directions.  I should also be
>able to bind a key or button to let me drag-scroll the widget.  I should
>also be able to request some sort of relative scrolling where the widget
>scrolls proportionally to the distance between the pointer and the
>click-point (something like the joystick widget mentioned earlier).
>
>I suppose this is more gtk related; if it's done at the widget level, every
>application benefits instantly.  This kind of consistency really is
>important; I don't use windows but my users still complain that the wheel
>works in some places and not others.
>
>Tied in to this is a desire for application-level speed-bars brought by an
>event which I can configure as I wish.  (This is more of a Gnome thing, I
>think.)
>
>Yes; the Logitech software has made an impression on me, but under windows
>it comes off as something of a hack.  Gnome is in the position to do it
>right from the ground up.
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