Re: Could we have mouse-wheel support before the feature freeze ?

[Guillaume Laurent <glaurent worldnet fr>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:

> One reason I was a bit hesitant to add the previous patches, is
> because they seemed a bit like hacks,

Well, at least mine was :-). The other one was from Nick Lopez and he
did a much cleaner job.

>  - If the mouse is over a scrollbar (horizontal as well
>    as vertical?) scroll that.

Yes, scrolling a horizontal scrollbar is rather unusual but a nice
thing to have.

>  - Otherwise, if the mouse is anywhere inside a scrollable
>    widget, scroll that, by some distance determined
>    by the adjustment. (Is adjustment->page_increment
>    too much. Is adjustment->step_increment too little?
>    How about the geometric mean? 
>    (sqrt(page*step), not sure if I'm joking about that)

No real idea there. I suppose it should be customizable.
 
> That would be easy if GTK+ had a widget-level
> XTranslateCoordinates equivalent. If someone wants to
> work on the above, I can whip that up in a few minutes
> from code I wrote in gtkdnd.c.

I'd love to but I currently lack time. Nick, would you like to do it ?
Otherwise, I guess I still can try.

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