On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:21:13 -0500 Jonathan Nieder wrote: [...] > Hi Francesco,
Hi Jonathan! > > Francesco Poli wrote: > > > Galeon (my current main browser) has a very useful feature that > > I miss in Chromium. > > > > In Galeon preferences, "Mouse" section, I can set "automatic scroll" > > as middle button action. This means that, when I click on a web page > > with the middle mouse button, I get an four-arrowed cross that I can > > move away from a circle in order to scroll the page in any 2D direction > > and with the desired speed. > > That sounds like a reasonable idea. Good! > Because I don't have a three-button > mouse handy and am unbelievably lazy :), I have a couple of basic > questions: > > - do other WebKit browsers (such as evolution and surf) implement > this? Is Evolution a web browser, as well?!? I don't use it (and I tend to avoid it like the plague...), hence I don't know: what's next step? will it soon make coffee, too? ;-) Or maybe you meant Epiphany? If this is the case, it does not seem to implement anything like the autoscroll feature. Maybe some random extension somewhere... but none in package epiphany-extensions, as far as I can see. I had never heard of surf before: I have to give it a try to answer your question... > > - does Gtk+ have an appropriate API for it or must each app implement > that for itself? In other words, is there a simple demonstration > app available for study that just shows an image and provides this > interface for panning in it? I don't know, unfortunately. Maybe you could look and see how it is implemented in Galeon, which links with GNOME libraries, and hence indirectly with GTK+ (I would say)... > > My previous experience with sending feature requests upstream is that > approximately 0% of the time someone upstream gets excited and picks > it up. As I said previously, this is really frustrating and encourages me to search elsewhere for a good DFSG-free program I can use as my new main browser... :-( > Once work starts, I believe crbug.com is the right place to > track it nevertheless so everyone interested is informed, but until > then I am happier tracking it at the Debian BTS only. So be it... > > Thanks, and I look forward to progress on this. Thanks to you. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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