WM suport for grab key scrolling

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpg at redhat.com
Fri Apr 20 12:28:57 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 12:20 -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
> > Btw what are the advantages of a scrolling mode/modifier over Apple's
> > two-finger?
> 
> There is none, except perhaps discoverability.  I'd rather have
> two-finger scrolling, but this may be patented and I understand that
> our trackpad can't provide multi-touch data anyway.

Heh, I guess the whole grab key thing feels pretty bad to me, design
wise. Two finger or even a simple scroll-wheel is much more direct. 

Better than nothing, I guess.

Marco




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