Re: scroll wheel focus

[Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany <Philipp Lohmann Sun COM>]

Hi,

actually in Windows it does not work that way; you always have to click 
into the scrollbar or the area it scrolls. But in my opinion the Xwindow 
way is better since it avoids the additional click. Then again i prefer 
a focus follows mouse policy anyway. If a window manager chose to 
imitate the windows behaviour i'd expect it to drop that if the focus 
policy is following the mouse.

Just my 2 cents,
Philipp

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got a scroll wheel mouse for the first time, and I noticed that
> it has strict mouse focus; i.e. you must have the pointer inside the
> widget to be scrolled. Does it work this way on Windows? It seems sort
> of strange to me. As a user I expected the wheel to operate on the
> active widget in the active window.
>
> Of course if you know how the scroll wheel is implemented on X it
> obviously works this way, since button presses go to the window under
> the pointer.
>
> Assuming this needs fixing, how would we do it?
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