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chinese saying says: learning from good things isn't bad.

The new Magic Mouse from Apple has the folloning functionality: it replaces the mouse-wheel by a touchpad. If you want to scroll through a longer page (webpage or pdf document or whatever) you can move your finger quickly over the touchpad and the page scrolls very fast and basically much longer than you touch the pad. It's like you gave the page a push in a direction, later it slowes down and stops very smoothly...

So the idea is: perhaps the kde-mouse-driver could check not only that the mouse wheel is moved but also at what speed. slow: normal mouse-wheel function. fast: the page scrolls fast up or down (like the magic mouse touchpad push...), depending on the wheel direction.

This would resemble the Apple idea quite good and should be doable also...

best regards,
incredion

Ubuntu, and therefore Kubuntu, have this in progress right now with 10.04. That includes two finger scrolling in multiple directions and the coasting you're asking for. I believe this driver will be available for more distros soon.

Please tell me what the difference is between this idea and this one: brainstorm.php#idea61210_page1

If it is sufficiently different it will be reapproved.

Moult wrote:Please tell me what the difference is between this idea and this one: brainstorm.php#idea61210_page1

If it is sufficiently different it will be reapproved.

i fear, there is none. it's the same idea.