On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 05/19/2015 04:16 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
>> I see Firefox uses more like a setting of 2 rather than 5 nowadays, 
>> so
>> maybe we should revisit those defaults indeed.  Part of the reason is
>> that devices have changed.
> 
> IME, Firefox scrolls by 3 lines rather than 2.

I guess that depends on which font sizes you usually encounter. IME,
it's often close to 2 lines.

How about changing the default to 2 lines and see how it works out,
then?

>> With the (old) wheel-mouse I'm using
>> a setting of 5 works rather well, but the rare few times I've used
>> a touchpad with a scroll area, I've indeed found the behavior to be
>> difficult to use.
> 
> Touchpads are tricky to get right, and the scroll amount (that the 
> user expects) also differs by the OS.
> 
> Maybe we should have a different setting for them, if distinguishing 
> is possible.

That also sounds good, if it is possible to do so.

Another thought also struck me, but I know very little about such
things, so I'm going to ask: how hard would it be to (optionally)
piggy-back the window system's native scrolling mechanisms?

-- Simen