On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 07:37:01PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > I am just wondering about that mouse wheel patch... Is there any reason why > > it wouldn't be incorporated into the next Blackbox release? I mean, it should > > be stable enough, and I don't think that it really slows down the interface > > any. In fact, I really loved it when I had it in beta1... I don't know about > > beta2 yet. I find that the mouse wheel patch makes it much faster to switch > > between my desktops, and I prefer that to the pager, which I use mainly for > > moving apps between desktops. > > > > the biggest reason is I do not own a wheel mouse and neither does Brad. We > dislike having any code that we can not personally test from time to time. Both > of us are also on the fence about the aethestic of using the wheel for this. > The mouse wheel was intended for scroll bars inside applications.
If you think of your workspaces as stacked on top of each other (evidently there is no rule that workspaces should be left to right in the user's brain) scrolling through them makes perfect sense.
