[Amarok] Using mouse wheel anywhere on ToolbarNG now change

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Kevin Funk wrote:
> Friday 18 September 2009, Seb Ruiz:
>> 2009/9/18 Bart Cerneels<bart.cerneels at kde.org>:
>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 14:08, Dan Meltzer<parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Kevin Funk<krf at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>>>> Friday 18 September 2009, Myriam Schweingruber:
>>>>>> .. arguing for the sake of arguing is not working here, you chose the
>>>>>> wrong option :)
>>>>> What?
>>>>> I think you didnt get my points. I said: "I'd expect this action to
>>>>> seek in the track rather than controlling the volume."
>>>>> I dont feel like ranting if you mean this.
>>>> I tend to agree, the progress bar is a much more important part of the
>>>> toolbar than the volume.  In older versions, the mouse wheel on any
>>>> part of the toolbar but the progress slider did change the volume, but
>>>> there was a lot more white space, and the volume slider was a bit more
>>>> present.  Here I think it would be logical to expect it to seek
>>>> instead.
>>> Please no position change unless the cursor is very exactly over the
>>> progress bar. I have a pretty sensitive scrollwheel and with touchpad
>>> it's also far to easy to accidently touch the scroll area. While a
>>> volume change is not very intrusive (unless it's to load) skipping in
>>> a song certainly is.
>> I totally agree. How often do you want to seek through a track just a
>> micro amount to use the wheel that you couldn't do by clicking?
>> Wheeling to seek is also inconsistent with the wheel volume event over
>> the systray. The main problem as I see it is that seek events can be
>> very disturbing the the listening process, whilst small changes in
>> volume aren't so distruptive.
>>
>
> Are you really changing the volume that often? I use my master out for that
> kind of task. Whilst I agree that seeking isn't that useful for this I don't
> see a reason for giving volume control that attention either.
> I'd say just revert.
>
The change was likely made for convenience, not frequency of use. I'd 
like to think that you can see why "scroll wheeling" to skip through a 
track when the mouse is anywhere except over progressbar would be 
annoying. For the volume, less so.

You asked originally if we had this in the previous version and then 
stated that you don't like it. If you didn't know about it then this 
dislike seems to be based on the idea of the change rather than actual 
usage. Not a very good reason to revert.

I myself have found the feature useful the few times I've used it (in 
the old toolbar). How about we (who have not done so) actually test it 
out in the new toolbar before giving it the axe?