[patch] Forward scroll and unused button events to the window manager

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Sep 24 22:06:21 CEST 2004


On 09/24/04 21:57, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 21:38, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > On 09/24/04 13:21, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> > just weird.  i haven't decided if i care or not.
> 
> I do. We should not break our design just because some people don't use
> xfwm4 and would like to keep a functionality that is in xfwm4.
> 
> So, from a design stand point, I thing the patch makes perfectly sense
> and I'm glad someone took time to do it. I did write the original code
> responsible from the wheel scroll in both xfwm4 and xfdesktop, and I
> think that patch is a good thing for xfdesktop (I am not judging the
> code itself, I just think it's a good design decision to remove that
> particular code from xfdesktop)

i'm confused then, because this patch _will_ break the design as-written.
if i apply the patch, and xfwm4 is not running, the scroll events will get
passed to the root window and nothing will happen (unless the WM that's
running does something with it).

	-brian



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