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Bug 599945 - touchpad vertical scroll causes horizontal scrolling of timeline
touchpad vertical scroll causes horizontal scrolling of timeline
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: pitivi
Classification: Other
Component: Timeline
0.13.3
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 0.91
Assigned To: Pitivi maintainers
Pitivi maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-28 19:37 UTC by nyall
Modified: 2013-10-04 20:57 UTC
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Description nyall 2009-10-28 19:37:09 UTC
Currently, both horizontal scrolling and vertical scrolling on my touchpad cause the timeline to scroll horizontally. This means there's no easy way to vertically scroll the timeline (eg, if I've got a bunch of audio tracks making the timeline quite tall). 
Maybe it's possible to detect if the user has a horizontal scroll wheel, and if so, only use this one for horizontal scrolling, and leave the other for vertical scrolling?
Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-09-22 17:33:51 UTC
Well the thing is 
1) how do we detect that the user's hardware allows scrolling in both directions?
2) the current behavior is by design/standardized for all users... not sure that making the behavior silently changed based on the hardware is good.

Note, however, that you can still scroll vertically currently. Just use shift+scroll.
Comment 2 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2013-10-04 20:57:20 UTC
As we are a small team with very limited resources, we sadly cannot implement every request. Since no patch/implementation was provided and there has not been a huge amount of interest in this particular feature, we will consider this to be out of scope.

Feel free to reopen this if you can provide a patch that addresses the issues mentioned above. Thanks!