Sorry, just realised xorg-devel would be more fitting for my request... Hi,
I'd like to make a proposal for mouse wheel handling. Today's pointer devices often have the capability to get more resolution on the mouse wheel velocity than the old click-by-click wheels. For example, for an IBM TrackPoint user the EmulateWheel option is very nice, but it's very disconcerting to see the screen move 3 lines at a time instead of one smooth motion. Same behaviour with mouse wheel emulation on touchpads. I know that there are attempts to correct this on the client side (i.e. Firefox smooth-scrolling) but because of the missing resolution in Xinput events the clickety-feel remains. I'm ready to put considerate effort into this issue, I just need someone with experience to tell me where to start. I see two ways of improving the resolution: 1) Just send more axis up/down button events This would break compability. Old software just expecting a few button "ticks" would suddenly scroll wildly. 2) Provide additional axis events with true resolution I realize that the GUI frameworks would also need work to make them use the new interface. Thank you, Max Schwarz _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel