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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15,April,2010 04:13 PM, Conscious User wrote:
> 
>> ... which is exactly what Conscious User and I said we were not proposing. We
>> were proposing that one action be specified by the application to
>> libappindicator to be the default. Then indicator-application (the applet)
>> decides how to activate this default action, which we proposed to be middle-click.
> 
> The same standardization could be applied to the scrollwheel. A
> scrollwheel action can only be associated to an indicator *if*
> such action can also be done via normal menu interaction. This
> is better than brushing those cases off as "hidden treasures".

And similar to what Remco proposed (double-click/default actions be bolded), we
could perhaps place intuitive scrolling icons on these actions that can be
triggered via the scroll wheel for discoverability.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer

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