Fwd: KDesktop patch - usefull?

[Matthias Welwarsky]

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On Monday 08 April 2002 12:27, David Faure wrote:
> What do people think about this feature?
> Anyone willing to make a config option for it?
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> Subject: KDesktop patch - usefull?
> Date: 07 Apr 2002 14:49:46 -0300
> From: Jason Keirstead <t126r at unb.ca>
> To: faure at kde.org
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> Hi David. According to bugs.kde.org, you are the maintainer of the
> kdesktop source. If I am wrong, please let me know :)
>
> I wrote this little patch and I think others would find it extremely
> usefull as well. It duplicates the functionality in E whereby if you
> scroll the mousewheel on your desktop, it switches virtual desktops
> either backward or forward depending on the direction.
>

I think linking an operation like desktop switching to the mouse wheel will 
surprise a lot of people. It's just not what you expect. The effect of a 
wheel action is usually scrolling a list view, inside an application or a 
dialog. You don't even expect it to change the active application, or to 
commence any action at all. Changing to another desktop is what I'd call a 
"heavy action" (just because it is usually a radical change in what you see 
on your screen), and it should not be linked to something as "easy" as a 
spinning of the mouse wheel.

I'd vote to leave it out completely and not even make it a hidden 
configuration option. People will probably not expect something like this to 
be there at all, its nothing you'd miss and therefore search. So it'll be 
dead code (and thus bloat).

just my 2c.

regards,
	Matze

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Matthias Welwarsky
Fachschaft Informatik FH Darmstadt
Email: matze at stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de

"all software sucks equally, but some software is more equal"
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