From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ignore mouse-wheel press during rotation Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:20:01 +0000 Message-ID: <43E32E51.7010706@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138990081 20861 80.91.229.2 (3 Feb 2006 18:08:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 03 19:07:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F55L8-0003Ui-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:07:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F550E-00073b-N9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4y82-00066j-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:25:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4y6s-0005eE-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4y6E-0005HN-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:23:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.207.198.106] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F4y5D-00051D-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RFB2B37C; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:14:17 -0000 Original-Received: from 192.168.111.59 ([192.168.111.59] helo=[192.168.111.59]) by ASSP-nospam ; 3 Feb 06 10:14:16 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: Drew Adams In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49967 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > The problem (annoyance) is that with many (all?) such mice it is easy to > accidentally press the wheel while trying to rotate it (the rotation finger > movement ends similarly to a press movement). Actually, I find the opposite is true. It is relatively easy to avoid applying downward force while rotating, but due to the shape of the wheel and position of the finger, difficult to avoid an accidental scroll when the intention is to press the button. I don't think this is something that can be easily solved by ignoring certain events, since it is impossible to know the user's real intention and we are as likely to frustrate the user as help them.