Currently there are three ways to scroll the Launcher:
- Click anywhere inside the launcher and drag up or down
- Move the pointer to the top or bottom of the launcher to scroll via the 
auto-scroll behaviour
- Scroll the launcher with their keyboard by entering the Launcher ALT+F1 
keyboard navigation mode

In Unity 8, users will also be able to scroll the Launcher via direct
touch manipulation if they have a touch screen (by touching the Launcher
on the screen and dragging their finger up or down).

So with 3 different ways of scrolling the Launcher today, and 4 in the
future with Unity 8 I think we are well covered for Launcher scrolling
mechanisms.

We are now using mouse wheel scrolling over the Launcher icons as a
window switching shortcut, and this conflicts with using the mouse wheel
to scroll the launcher.  Given the above conflict, 'won't fix' is the
correct status for this bug.

In the future when we can respond differently to different types of
input device in Unity 8, we will investigate adding an indirect
manipulation (trackpad) gesture for scrolling the launcher.

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  Launcher - Mouse wheel and touchpad two finger/edge scrolling doesn't
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