Does anyone disagree that 5327 is a bug which needs to be fixed?

[Deron Johnson]

That is a very good question. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to
it. Perhaps someone else out there does. To me, the notion of treating
wheel events like button events seems like a first-class kludge to begin
with.


Mr E_T wrote On 01/18/06 17:02,:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 08:54, Deron Johnson wrote:
> 
>>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5327
>>
>>Basically, what is happening is that every time the user moves the mouse
>>wheel button press and release events are generated with button numbers
>>4 or 5 (depending on the direction of the wheel movement). These events
>>are repeatedly triggering the default button grab and terminating the
>>grab. This is a waste of cycles. It seems to me that triggering a grab
>>on a mouse wheel movement is contrary to the X11 protocol. I am willing
>>to fix this. Does anybody disagree that it needs to be fixed?
> 
> How do you tell a standard button from a wheel button
> Ive seen mice with 4 or more buttons and a wheel.
> ( Dont know why you need em tho )
>