WM suport for grab key scrolling

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpg at redhat.com
Fri Apr 20 12:41:43 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 18:27 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > Well, yeah, but the fact that's physically part of the the keyboard
> > doesn't really suggest it's a mouse modifier. And the fact that we  
> > have
> > a scrolling mode (press/release) doesn't suggest it either.
> 
> Who actually thinks this is a good idea? I'd much rather require  
> holding the grab key. There will be numerous kids trying to move the  
> pointer while nothing happens.

That's the behavior Eben was requesting. I probably agree with you here,
it's likely that kids will switch the mode on unintentionally.

Marco




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