Re: Wheeled Mouse

["Haukur Hreinsson" <hawk london is>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Frater Reklaw <fraterreklaw@yahoo.com>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: 4. ágúst 1998 22:07
Subject: Wheeled Mouse


>ARRRRRGH I hate wheeled mice. They are a fine
>example of calling limited functionaly a "Feature"
>
>Why not instead of playing catchup with KDE (who is
>playing catchup with MS), why don't we do something
>better.
>
>I used a program for win called (can't remember name)
>but it turned the middle button of the mouse into a
>scroll button. (The wheel on the intellmouse can be
>used as a third button under win -- I don't know how
>*nix drivers handle it). Clicking the middle button
>would put a bulls-eye anorched in clicked spot on the screen to let
>you know that you were in scroll mode.
>Moving the mouse away from the bulls-eye would change
>the cursor into one of eight directional arrows. Move
>a little more and the control under the bulls-eye
>would begin scrolling in the direction indictated.
>Move farther, scroll faster. click any button to end
>scroll mode.


The intellimouse drivers under MSWin do this too.

I actually feel the wheel is an excellent idea. Now that I've learned to use
it in Win, it bothers me when it doesn't work in X. Actually, it also
bothers me when it doesn't work in Microsoft's own Notepad :-)