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

[Francesco Poli]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:21:13 -0500 Jonathan Nieder wrote:

[...]
> Hi Francesco,

Hi Jonathan!

> 
> 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.

Good!

> 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?

Is Evolution a web browser, as well?!?
I don't use it (and I tend to avoid it like the plague...), hence I
don't know: what's next step? will it soon make coffee, too?  ;-)

Or maybe you meant Epiphany?
If this is the case, it does not seem to implement anything like the
autoscroll feature.
Maybe some random extension somewhere... but none in package
epiphany-extensions, as far as I can see.

I had never heard of surf before: I have to give it a try to answer your
question...

> 
>  - 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?

I don't know, unfortunately.
Maybe you could look and see how it is implemented in Galeon, which
links with GNOME libraries, and hence indirectly with GTK+ (I would
say)...

> 
> My previous experience with sending feature requests upstream is that
> approximately 0% of the time someone upstream gets excited and picks
> it up.

As I said previously, this is really frustrating and encourages me to
search elsewhere for a good DFSG-free program I can use as my new main
browser...    :-(

> 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.

So be it...

> 
> Thanks, and I look forward to progress on this.

Thanks to you.


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