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im internet explorer / ms office you can scroll by

click the mouse wheel
move mouse up or down
the position of mouse pointer in relation to the place where first clicked determines direction and speed of scrolling
click mouse anywhere to exit scrolling

in linux wheel click is reserved to paste (better i think). but i'd like this behaviour when middle click is performed on the scroll bar

ash wrote:im internet explorer / ms office you can scroll by

click the mouse wheel
move mouse up or down
the position of mouse pointer in relation to the place where first clicked determines direction and speed of scrolling
click mouse anywhere to exit scrolling

in linux wheel click is reserved to paste (better i think). but i'd like this behaviour when middle click is performed on the scroll bar

from what i can gather, the center click in a browser appears to be the work of a plugin or assitant application like what would be provided in software from logitech.
you may do well to go hunt for a firefox mouse add-on to provide this behaviour.

this feature is part of windows or the applications. its not from the mouse maker

i think of implementing it within the scroll bar widget (since the 1st click must be on it anyway - wheel click in linux in other places usually means paste). however i am not advanced in this and dont know if its possible or best

I think this is already implemented, see Konqueror > Settings > Configure Konqueror > Web Browsing > Mouse Behaviour. Uncheck "Middle click opens URL in selection"

That does indeed work in konqueror, but it does not appear to be available in the rest of KDE, so I would say it is not implemented.

when an appliccation assigns its own task to wheel click i want it to take over the scrolling feature

therefore i want the scrolling feature only if the initial click is on a scroll bar

yeah, I think such a feature would be quite "usable".

I remember first using this feature with the first scrollwheel mouse I used, also the first USB device I ever used, in 1999 when this feature was provided by the driver. Of course MS added this to Windows in their default driver for wheel mice at some later point. Its one of those features that I do miss in KDE, it would be nice to have.

@ash
I think, if you wouldn't have put the word "microsoft" in your topic title, you would have much more votes