[Bug 39328] Re: [Bug 39328] Re: Offer option to disable scroll wheel on task list

[Ben Maurer]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:22 +0000, Vincent Untz wrote:
> No plan for this, but I can't say we'll never do this.
> 
> Ben, I don't quite understand this comment: "The issue is that this
> scroll isn't as reversible as scrolling in a text document or
> something."
> 
> Why isn't it as reversible?

When you scroll a text document a few steps by accident, you don't lose
your place that much. You are just a few lines off from where you were.
However, when you scroll on the window list, you need to make the
*EXACT* same number of scrolls to get back to where you were. This is
hard to do on a laptop touchpad.

The scrolling works really well when you have a normal mouse, however I
think that it is hard to control with a laptop, and false-positive
detection of scrolling can make things worst, rather than better, with
the new feature.

-- Ben

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Offer option to disable scroll wheel on task list
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39328