From kde-core-devel  Fri Apr 24 20:16:30 2009
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:16:30 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KNotificationAreaItem
Message-Id: <200904241416.30648.aseigo () kde ! org>
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On Friday 24 April 2009, Aur=C3=A9lien G=C3=A2teau wrote:
> >> One usually do not trigger mouse clicks accidentally because it's a
> >> point-and-click operation. Wheel-scroll is not: you just roll the whee=
l,
> >> thinking the mouse is still over the document you are reading. That's
> >> the whole point of mouse wheel: scrolling without pointing the cursor =
at
> >> the scrollbar.
> >
> > that isn't how wheeling has worked now or ever in x11. again, please
> > direct your energy to the right place.
>
> I do not understand what you mean. For me using the mouse wheel on x11
> (as on other os) means getting a page to scroll while my mouse is over
> the page, not over the scrollbar.

yes, it's about scrolling when it isn't over the scrollbar; however, on som=
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other systems (at least last time i tried) you have to click the window to=
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give it wheel focus first. in x you just hover and wheel and the wheel even=
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goes to whatever is hovered, not necessarily focused.=20

whether that's a smart thing or not depends on your POV :) personally i'd l=
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an option somewhere for this if it doesn't already exist.

> >> if the browser suddenly switches between tabs, or if the wm switches to
> >> another window/desktop. This is because mouse-wheel is expected to be a
> >> very easy-to-undo operation: if you roll a bit too low, just roll it a
> >> bit up to get where you want. Magical pagers and taskbars break this.
> >
> > "magical" pagers and taskbars behave identically; roll up a bit and
> > you're back to where you were.
>
> True for pagers and taskbars, false for desktop background.

i'm pretty agnostic on the desktop background, btw. i'd be fine with an opt=
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for it and default it to off now that we have that corona config box. the o=
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reason why that feature is there is i got really tired of getting email abo=
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it not being there and in a moment of exasperated weakness implemented it (=
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was a 1-2 liner)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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