Re: scroll wheel mouse configuration

[lyran <brandon lyran ca>]

I second that. This behaviour drives me crazy... you have no idea what will
appear under your mouse cursor as you scroll a window, so there is simply no
reason why a widget which appears under the mouse pointer during a scroll
should "steal" the scrolling action and suddenly start changing values.

Most simply, the scroll wheel should only scroll the window/frame directly
under the cursor, if there is a scroll bar. (Think of a text box in
firefox--you can scroll both the textbox and the firefox window.) 

More complex behaviour, if one really wanted the scroll wheel to work on
pull-down menus without having to click on them, might look like this: no
widget which falls under the mouse pointer steals the scrolling action;
however, if the mouse has moved since the last scroll action and the pointer
has landed on a widget (suggesting the user's focus has changed to the
widget), the widget might steal the scroll.
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