Bug#640959: chromium: please implement automatic scroll with middle mouse button

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 640959 + upstream
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Hi Francesco,

Francesco Poli wrote:

> Galeon (my current main browser) has a very useful feature that
> I miss in Chromium.
>
> In Galeon preferences, "Mouse" section, I can set "automatic scroll"
> as middle button action. This means that, when I click on a web page
> with the middle mouse button, I get an four-arrowed cross that I can
> move away from a circle in order to scroll the page in any 2D direction
> and with the desired speed.

That sounds like a reasonable idea.  Because I don't have a three-button
mouse handy and am unbelievably lazy :), I have a couple of basic
questions:

 - do other WebKit browsers (such as evolution and surf) implement
   this?

 - does Gtk+ have an appropriate API for it or must each app implement
   that for itself?  In other words, is there a simple demonstration
   app available for study that just shows an image and provides this
   interface for panning in it?

My previous experience with sending feature requests upstream is that
approximately 0% of the time someone upstream gets excited and picks
it up.  Once work starts, I believe crbug.com is the right place to
track it nevertheless so everyone interested is informed, but until
then I am happier tracking it at the Debian BTS only.

Thanks, and I look forward to progress on this.

Regards,
Jonathan