Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: requesting a change in the defaults

2006-09-22 Thread Alex Fernandez
i understand that it goes against the current thinking of getting things to work on a computer This odd way of thinking: getting things done. [worthless-chatter-snip] i cannot give any kind of logical reason for it and probably you should do the right thing and trash this suggestion of mine.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: requesting a change in the defaults

2006-09-22 Thread Manish Singh
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:03:48AM +0200, Alex Fernandez wrote: i cannot give any kind of logical reason for it and probably you should do the right thing and trash this suggestion of mine. Yes, it is the usual email pollution. You're guilty of the same. Looking at the archives, you speak

Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all? (was: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: requesting a change in the defaults)

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Alex Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Speaking about house cleaning. Let me ask why does this person still hold a @gimp.org email address? Come to think of it, there's probably no reason why anyone should use a gimp.org address for arbitrary messages to the mailing lists. They are good for

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: requesting a change in the defaults

2006-09-22 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 15:01 +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: Well, there's one thing that doesn't work without the middle mouse button: panning. Hi! you will be happy to hear that you can pan with a spacebar + lmb now (In cvs HEAD that is). cheers -- Jakub Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: requesting a change in the defaults

2006-09-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 9/21/06, Roel Schroeven wrote: OTOH, touchpads and pointing sticks on laptops don't have scroll wheels. Sorry to disappoint you, but here on my ASUS M6N there are two ways to emulate scrolling: 1. Middle touchpad up/down button. 2. Right and bottom borders of the touchpad surface. Carol,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: requesting a change in the defaults

2006-09-21 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:46:00PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Carol, actually, I don't understand your reasoning behind this question. If we disable this controller by default, the very next thing that will happen is gazillion of users asking why mousewheel scrolling doesn't work. No

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: requesting a change in the defaults

2006-09-21 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 19:37 +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: It seems that more and more applications start to rely more or less heavily on middle mouse buttons and/or scrollwheels (Gimp and Google Earth come to mind), which is a bit annoying as my laptop is my main machine. GIMP doesn't