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

[Russell Shaw]

Deron Johnson wrote:
> 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 )

 > 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.

Put a new "wheel" option into the Section "InputDevice" of xorg.conf syntax.