Two-Dimensional scrolling (was: Re: Fwd: [Bug 34362] mouse button support)

[Jörg Walter]

On Tuesday, 31. December 2002 14:56, Antonio Larrosa Jiménez wrote:
> El Viernes, 27 de Diciembre de 2002 19:30, Jörg Walter escribió:
> > On Friday, 27. December 2002 09:36, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > The short story is that vertical "wheel" motion works fine. I created a
> > small patch for Qt so that I even get horizontal "wheel" motion correct.
>
> I implemented the original support for wheel emulation (to use that same
> button, as I also have a Trackman Marble FX) in XFree and Qt (with a
> similar patch than yours) in May 2001 :)
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-xpert&m=98987813628698&w=2

Funny that, I was searching for something like that endlessly. Didn't find it, 
obviously :-)

> The problem is that even if the people at XFree accepted a very similar
> patch than mine in August 2001 (it seems they "lost" my patch for some
> time because it arrived to them in a freeze), the people at Trolltech
> never accepted my patch, as buttons 6 and 7 are not "in the standard".

Why's that? I mean, it is obvious, it is supported by an important X Vendor, 
it is small, non-intrusive, and above all, it works. They have done such a 
great job with introducing/supporting "windows"-ish features on X, I wonder 
where the problem is.

> Did you note that qt-copy already has that patch ? I thought that finally
> Trolltech thought again about it and accepted my changes, but now I'm not
> sure, did you commit it to qt-copy ? or did those changes came from
> Trolltech's snapshots ?

I didn't notice that. I am just innocently building Qt+KDE via Gentoo, and due 
to bad connectivity I am still running rc3, so I can't tell if it's in there 
or not. At least it wasn't me who committed it - I prefer to stay in the 
world of my small subdir which I maintain, that's all :-)

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  Joerg

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