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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any plans/comments whether this one will get merged?

> On 12.02.2016, at 20:38, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> attached a patch to add a new feature “touchpad panning”.
> When enabled, you can pan in x/y-direction by just using usual 2-finger touchpad gestures without shift/ctrl modifiers instead of scroll wheel zoom.
> 
> It is particularly useful on OS X, because any Apple touchpad/mouse supports these 2-finger gestures (1-finger with MagicMouse). 
> It makes KiCad behave more like any other regular OS X application and has been requested for some time by some/many OS X users.
> 
> It is built on top of platform independent wxWidgets functions, so it should work also on any other platform and device supporting x/y mousewheel events and is not restricted to OS X.
> 
> I added preference options to each application like the other pan/zoom options (and a menu entry for 3d-Viewer).
> If disabled, panning/scrolling should work the same as without the patch.
> 
> I tested it on
> * OS X with touchpad, MagicMouse, MightMouse
> * OS X with normal PC mouse
> * Linux running inside a VirtualBox on OS X (debian testing with xfce desktop)
> 
> I would be great if someone could test it on native Windows/Linux with a touchpad.
> It should be OK, the only problem that I could imagine is that panning speed might have to be adapted (frequency/granularity of mousewheel events could be different between OS X and other platforms, there are already some platform specific adaptions in the code before the patch).
> 
> Of course, any other feedback is also welcome!
> 
> Note:
> This patch contains the patch discussed in the other mail thread, which disables framerate throttling in GAL on OS X.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
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