[feature request] change direction of mouse wheel workspace cycling

Submitted by Emanuel Haupt @ehaupt

Assigned to Olivier Fourdan @olivier

Link to original bug (#3361)

Description

The FreeBSD ports system provides an additional patch that reverses the direction of the mouse wheel workspace cycling. It would be nice if it could be included into the upstream version. Preferably with a changable config option.

Version: 4.4.x

Brian J. Tarricone said:

For the record, I'm not in favor of a pref for this, but... up to Olivier.

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 1621, "patch to add mouse wheel scroll direction to xfwm-4.4.2":
xfwm4-4.4.2-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 1622, "adds mouse wheel scroll direction to xfce4-panel-4.4.2":
xfce4-panel-4.4.2-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 1623, "adds mouse wheel scroll direction to libxfcegui4-4.4.2":
libxfcegui4-4.4.2-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Erik-Jan said:

For those interested: attached are three patches that add configurable mouse wheel workspace cycling direction. They apply to xfce-4.4.2.

The xfwm patch adds the functionality to the window-manager.

The libxfcegui4 and xfce4-panel patches add the functionality to the pager in the panel. Both libxfcegui4 and xfce4-panel patches must be applied to prevent missing symbols-errors.

They can be used independently.

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 1974, "adds mouse wheel scroll direction switch to xfwm4-4.5.91":
xfwm4-4.5.91-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 1975, "adds mouse wheel scroll direction switch to xfce4-panel-4.5.91":
xfce4-panel-4.5.91-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Erik-Jan said:

Added two new patches, for 4.5.91 (Beta-1). Only xfwm and xfce4-panel need to be patched. Scrolling on the panel now also works if you don't have workspaces but viewports (like Compiz does).

After applying the xfwm-patch, you need to regenerate xfwm4-tweaks-dialog_glade.h with these commands:

cd settings-dialogs exo-csource --static --strip-comments --strip-content
--name=tweaks_dialog_glade xfwm4-tweaks-dialog.glade \

xfwm4-tweaks-dialog_glade.h cd ..

Erik-Jan said:

Updated for 4.5,92 (4.6-beta2 Hopper)

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 1996, "adds mouse wheel scroll direction switch to xfce4-panel-4.5.92":
xfce4-panel-4.5.92-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 1997, "adds mouse wheel scroll direction switch to xfwm4-4.5.92":
xfwm4-4.5.92-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Olivier Fourdan @olivier said:

What do you guys think about this?

Brian J. Tarricone said:

Personally I think this pref is silly, and have resisted when people ask for it, but if someone's written the code...

Jasper Huijsmans said:

(In reply to comment 13)

Personally I think this pref is silly, and have resisted when people ask for it, but if someone's written the code...

<grumpy old man mode> ... it's still silly. Come on, this is equivalent to making the direction of scrollbars configurable, isn't it? If there are good arguments to change, fine, but let's pick one. </gumpy old man mode>

Glad to play the Joe Klemmer role here, even if that's all I can do these days ;-)

Feel free to ignore my grumbling.

Jannis Pohlmann said:

I don't think that's really worth an option unless it really helps e.g. RTL people to scroll through the workspaces.

Olivier Fourdan @olivier said:

I have no doubt that ppl find that useful since it's been asked several times and we even have a patch here.

But reading the comments, it seems that this is not going to happen for 4.6. But nevertheless, I think it's good to have this patch here in BZ for those who want this option.

Erik-Jan said:

Updated these silly patches for 4.8. I still can't get used to the "correct" direction :)

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 3390, "adds mouse wheel scroll direction switch to xfce4-panel-4.8":
xfce4-panel-4.8.0-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Erik-Jan submitted a patch:

Patch 3391, "adds mouse wheel scroll direction switch to xfwm-4.8":
xfwm4-4.8.0-invert_scroll_workspaces-1.patch

Harald Judt @hjudt submitted a patch:

I'm glad I stumbled over this old bug report! I don't see a reason to not invert the scrolling (mw up = next viewport, mw down = previous viewport, I wonder why it should be done the opposite way, it feels so unnatural!?), so I ripped out that user preference stuff and only kept the viewport.

Patch 4958, "pager-viewport-switching-support.patch":
pager-viewport-switching-support.patch