[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 95480] [RFE] Trackpoint: «button scrolling» with no button pressed

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95480

Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |peter.hutterer at who-t.net
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> ---
Not planning to implement this at this point, sorry. It's an interesting
feature, but my slate is so full right now that I won't get to this.

implementation-wise: I'm not sure that wedging this into our current scroll
button approach would be sensible, it is better to have a new scroll method
"always" (or similar naming) since a similar request has come up for touchpads
in the past.

but I do question whether the effort is worth the benefit. Yes, it saves you a
button press when you need to scroll but it doesn't come for free on the
maintenance side of things. and the cost is an ongoing one since we cannot ever
retire this feature once it's merged.

this is also a feature we cannot ever enable by default, so you'll need
something providing access to the configuration option. this is easy enough
with the xorg.conf approach, but you'll have to convince a few wayland
compositors first that they too will expose this in some manner. otherwise it
will just end up being an unreachable configuration option in the long run that
costs us maintenance effort but is not actually usable by the majority of
users.

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