[vlc-devel] Re: Mouse wheel (vertical) events shouldn't change movie position.

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On 22 avr. 07, at 18:56, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently mouse wheel (vertical) key event triggers a change in the  
> movie position.

Currently it does nothing... ( I should remember not to trust people  
on IRC :P ) So lets say this mail is about defaulting the use of  
scroll wheel to set the volume, in opposition to setting the position.

> But it is a bit dangerous. For instance the mouse wheel in the  
> Apple mighty mouse is very sensitive, and it is really easy to skip  
> a frame with this. Which is kind of annoying, when you are watching  
> a movie and clicking around.


> Also the mouse (vertical) wheel tends to be perceived as vertical  
> device whereas the position is more horizontal. (this sentence  
> looks clumsy, but I think there is a truth behind it ;) )
>
> I think we should think of having the mouse wheel vertical key not  
> to change the position.
>
> If you really want to have the mouse wheel to navigate in time, we  
> could have the horizontal mouse wheel event to trigger the position  
> change.
>
> I instead suggest that we should change the volume using the  
> vertical scroll wheel.
>
> What do you think? Would you accept a patch that change this  
> behavior in VLC?
>
> Pierre.
>
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