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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: wheel events no longer passed to the wallpaper?
From:       Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-12-29 23:16:20
Message-ID: d9f848520912291516y684c1c38gb30a3c91d274e087 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/12/29 Chani <chanika@gmail.com>:
> On December 29, 2009 14:39:05 Benoit Jacob wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just tried 4.4 beta2 and noted that mouse wheel events are no longer
>> passed to the wallpaper. Is this intentional or a bug? Notice that
>> this breaks the Mandelbrot wallpaper, as it makes the zooming
>> functionality much harder to discover (have to use MMB D&D).
>
> in the wheel event, containmentactions plugins get higher priority than the
> wallpaper. that's the opposite of mouse press/release events...
> I'll switch it so the wallpaper gets top priority.

Thanks!

>
> unfortunately this will prevent users of your wallpaper from using the "scroll
> wheel on desktop switches virtual-desktop" feature.

Yes, I agree that this is a problem. But this was already the case in
KDE 4.3, so at least the users are used to that. I think that for
users who chose to use Mandelbrot, when they use the mouse wheel on
the wallpaper, they are more likely to want a zoom than a desktop
switch...

Benoit


> folderview's got the same
> problem - I think whatever widget it uses to display icons eats scroll events
> even when it doesn't need scrollbars.
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