Comment 21 for bug 124440
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| Alpha Crasher (ah734) wrote Re: gnome needs a way to manipulate scroll speed | #21 |
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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.