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Horizontal scroll should scroll horizonally
Status:
CLOSED: FIXED

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Description Stefan Stuhr 2006-01-11 08:47:35 CET
The feature to navigate back/forward when scrolling horizontally (with a
mousewheel or similar) was introduced with revision 19367. I don't like this
behaviour, horizontal scroll should scroll horizontally. (!)

The reason I don't like this behaviour is that I have configured the TrackPoint
on my ThinkPad to scroll when holding down the middle button. That is, I can use
my TrackPoint to scroll in any angle I want.
Most often, when I scroll vertically with my TrackPoint, I scroll a little
slanting, i.e. it scrolls a little horizontally when I scroll vertically.
The result is that when I use my TrackPoint to scroll vertically, Thunar goes
back/forward in history. This makes using my TrackPoint to scroll in Thunar
mostly useless.

I know Firefox has the same default behaviour (which I consider broken) as
Thunar, but in Firefox, one can fix the behaviour in about:config.

So please, either let horizontal scroll scroll horizontally by default, or make
an (hidden?) option to fix the default behaviour.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2006-01-11 17:24:14 CET
2006-01-11	Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>

	* thunar/thunar-standard-view.c(thunar_standard_view_scroll_event),
	  thunar/thunar-preferences.c: Add a new hidden preference,
	  MiscHorizontalWheelNavigates, which controls whether the horizontal
	  mouse wheel should be used to navigate back and forth within a
	  Thunar view. This fixes bug #1319.
Comment 2 Stefan Stuhr 2006-01-11 17:33:26 CET
Thanks, it works :)

Bug #1319

Reported by:
Stefan Stuhr
Reported on: 2006-01-11
Last modified on: 2009-07-17

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
0 users

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Version:
0.2.1svn

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