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[Alpha Crasher <124440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pascal and company,

The only wish-list the lack of scroll wheel adjustment belongs on is
Microsoft's wish-list - as in they wish it never happens.

If you want people, end users, to migrate to Linux, then the LAST thing
you want is to make the controls uncomfortable.

This would put mouse, mouse wheel and touch pad control adjustment at
the TOP of the DROP EVERYTHING and DO YESTERDAY list.

Given that a Microsoft memo identified Linux as the single biggest
threat it faces, and that OpenOffice does virtually everything that MS
Office does, but for free, I wonder how much Microsoft would be willing
to offer me in cash, foreign property and cash or even jobs for my
family members or a future job for myself if I were in a position to
hold back or delay the development of the crucial FUNDAMENTALS that end-
users expect in an operating system such as comfort adjustment of
keyboards and mice?

How much would Microsoft be willing to pay me if I could hold on to my
position of steering development efforts away from anything that would
make Debian, the most widely distributed version of Linux with it's
default Gnome desktop, INSTANTLY more user friendly?

Is this a far-fetched idea, not really, just ask yourself 3 questions:
1) how many decades have mice, scroll wheels and touch pads been
around?, 2) How many computers don't have both a keyboard and a mouse?,
and 3) How is it possible a simple mouse-wheel adjustment has not been
implemented in Gnome?

If you have any doubts as to the effect of the lack of user-
friendliness, you need look no further than Ubuntu and Fedora.  The sole
reason that these distributions exist and have gained in popularity is
the lack of user-friendliness of other distributions because end-users
will invariably choose a user-friendly installation.

No Fyo, this is NOT a hardware issue as nobody in their right mind
expects hardware manufacturers to fabricate hardware for Linux which has
less than 3% of the market.  While comfort and ease of use by itself
will not grow that market share, lack of it certainly will keep it from
increasing.  Daniel has it right.

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gnome needs a way to manipulate scroll speed
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