affects midori
affects debian
done
On dim., 2011-10-09 at 17:37 +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> Package: midori
> Version: 0.4.0-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello!
>
> Galeon (which I currently use as my main web browser) has a feature
> that I really miss in Midori.
>
> 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. The direction is the one from the center
> of the circle to the center of the cross; the speed increases with
> the distance of the cross from the circle.
> Once the cross is placed somewhere off the center of the circle, the
> scrolling goes on automatically in a "hands-free" way.
> The scrolling changes direction and/or speed, as I move the cross
> again; it stops when I click on the page again with the middle mouse
> button.
>
> This is very practical, since it can be used to scroll pages very
> quickly and in any direction, or to slowly scroll down a page
> while reading, and so forth.
>
> It would be very very nice to have this feature implemented in
> Midori.
>
> Please take into account that, among the web browsers I tried out,
> the only WebKit-based one which seems to have a feature that is
> very similar to Galeon's automatic scroll is Rekonq.
> Maybe it could be useful to take a look at how it is implemented
> there...
>
> You may also want to take a look at bug #640959, perhaps: in that
> wishlist bug I requested an equivalent feature for Chromium.
>
Looks like what you want is a trackpoint :)
Forwarding upstream though.
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis
ssia.
Attaching a patch that:
- makes it a runtime setting
- updates the Qt port (which was relying on the flag)
- adds a wrapper for the setting in the GTK+ port
Yes, I know it doesn't have a changelog, it would take me a few more days to update my webkit :)