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

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Sep 24 23:27:14 CEST 2004


On 09/24/04 22:26, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 22:06, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > i'm confused then, because this patch _will_ break the design as-written.
> 
> Yes, it's what I'm saying, I'm not too happy with the current design and
> I think that patch improves things. Clearly, I took the easy patch and
> implemented the functionality twice (not the same exact implementation,
> sure, but still, done twice...)
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Yeap, I don't think we should not bother too much with people who run
> other WM because people who choose to run another WM do that because
> they like the functionalities of that particular WM, then won't care if
> the scroll wheel is missing.
> 
> I hope I made myself clearer :)

ohhhh, ok.  i think i just totally misunderstood what you were saying in
your first email.  all good, and i agree ^_^.

	-brian



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