Comment 12 for bug 39328
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| Ugo Riboni (uriboni) wrote Re: Offer option to disable scroll wheel on task list | #12 |
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(Get the code!)
This happens to me a lot too.
And it's more of a problem on desktop than in other places because a small, mistaken scroll in most app windows will not cause much trouble, it will generally scroll just a little.
Instead in the desktop even a very tiny amount of scroll will start switching like mad between screens.
The real issue i think is a sum of two factors:
1) it takes even a very small amount of scroll to switch one or two desktops in a certain direction. in other words, the desktop scrolling is more sensitive than scrolling in other windows (e.g. firefox or nautilus)
2) the desktop list is circular, so it will keep scrolling very fast even if you reach the last desktop
The combination of these creates the very annoying "flashing" effect.
it also makes it effectively impossible to use this feature intentionally. The desktops flash by too fast and you need to be a precision monster to be able to use this feature on a laptop.
(please not that using a mouse will not show this issue since the scroll whell has "notches" that provide easier control of the number of "scrolls" you generate. a laptop touchpad scroll feature has no such thing instead)