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ndhskp
March 30th, 2006, 09:41 AM
Hello.

What would it take to get mice side to side (horizontal) scrolling working natively in linux. Are the kernel and X people lacking side scrolling mice? I really really want native side scrolling. If the developers need hardware then I would be willing to buy 2 wired Microsoft Intellimouse Explorers, 4.0 versions at least.

If this don't work then what else can I do for kernel and X developers to help them? Side scrolling is it I think. Yes I am very serious about getting in contact with the right programmers to make this work and spend my own money.

If I am completely on the wrong track I apologize.

ssam
March 30th, 2006, 02:33 PM
i imagine it would take a bit of work across xorg and the desktops.

the recomended way of doing this within ubuntu is to write a spec, and put a bounty on it. if you get this done now then maybe a student can pick it up as a summer project and it can be in dapper+1 in october

see https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bounties and https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs

-Rick-
March 30th, 2006, 05:10 PM
I bit of magic with imwheel may work. Just set it to use the left/right key when one of the horizontal 'buttons' are pressed.

ndhskp
March 30th, 2006, 08:42 PM
i imagine it would take a bit of work across xorg and the desktops.

the recomended way of doing this within ubuntu is to write a spec, and put a bounty on it. if you get this done now then maybe a student can pick it up as a summer project and it can be in dapper+1 in october

see https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bounties and https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs
Thanks for the links, I will will get to work on this.

ndhskp
March 30th, 2006, 09:46 PM
Okay I got the bounty setup for the horizontal scrolling. But I need help with the writing a spec.

What do people think should be in a horizontal mouse spec.

horizontal-spec-bounty (https://launchpad.net/bounties/mouse-horizontal-scrolling)

Ubuntu-specs (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs)