From: "Simen Heggestøyl" <simenheg@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default mouse wheel scrolling is jumpy
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 21:05:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1433012712.4063.0@smtp.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555A91B0.9080405@yandex.ru>
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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
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-18 21:03 Default mouse wheel scrolling is jumpy Simen Heggestøyl
2015-05-19 1:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-19 1:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-30 19:05 ` Simen Heggestøyl [this message]
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