Jon Pennington wrote:
--- Tom Wesley
wrote: Am I wrong in thinking that KDE2 now does the imwheel stuff itself?
No, you're not entirely wrong, everyone else is, though. IMWheel has been mostly useless since XFree86 4.0 was released. IMWheel was a stopgap until X supported the 4th and 5th buttons (and more) natively, which it indeed has supported since XFree86 4.0.
STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO GET IMWHEEL unless they are using some ancient software that absolutely must have it. Some weird console application tweaks are still nice to have IMWheel for, but most people don't need it at all.
I suspect there are MANY people still using ACIENT programs that WILL need imwheel. Not only that, but some (me) are using ANCIENT programs with imwheel because imwheel provides a feature that X/KDE DOES NOT. SMOOTH SCROLLING in netscape 4.x for one. Once you've had it you'll not be able to go without it. The mouse wheel CAN scrool exactly like if you grabbed the side bar and moved it up and down. Also the acroread pluggin for netscape will not scroll without it. So there IS a need for imwheel in the world for now. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com