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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Scroll Wheel and Menus
From:       Mark Hillary <m.hillary () ckcaterers ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-06-20 22:25:04
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On Wednesday 20 June 2001  4:20 pm, Hans Meine wrote:
> "David Stidolph" <dstidolph@broadjump.com> writes:
> > Primarily most people use the scroll wheel to move Web pages up and down
> > in the Browser.  I would not like it to move the mouse (that is at odds
> > with moving your hand), but having it act like the up/down cursor keys
> > and move the menu highlight would be fine.  The other option of moving
> > (scrolling) the menu itself,  mentioned earlier, was innovative, but I'm
> > not sure how people would react (personally, I think it would look
> > different and be distinctive).
>

I think it would look very very cool. I like it.

> I like the latter idea very much because:
> - the cursor is over the item which is activated on a click
> - the mouse cursor does not move away (after all, the whole idea was
>   about not being forced to move the mouse)
> - it is somehow even similar to "moving web pages up/down": the viewed
>   object under the mouse is moved :-)

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