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

[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 15:58, Ely Levy wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > However, we'll have to keep button events for a long time in order not
> > to break 'older' (that is: current) applications.
> >
> > > Today most programs just guess it to be button 4-5 and I already saw a

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> > > lot of people complaining after suddenly IMPS/2 protocol changed it to
> > > 6-7 in xorg 6.9.
> >
> > Sure. 4/5 is standard for wheel 1 (y axis), 6/7 for wheel 2 (x axis).
>
> standard?!!?
> How is it a standard?

 That's how it's a (de facto) standard. Just run xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 
7 4 5" and watch your Qt/KDE apps, Gtk/GNOME apps and who knows what apps 
suddenly scroll horizontally instead of vertically.

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Lubos Lunak
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