OOo and Firefox in Linux - Unrequited Love

[Otto de Voogd (Fedora List)]

--- "Otto de Voogd (Fedora List)" <ottodisp-fedoralist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Parameshwara Bhat <peebhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:58:50 +0530, <fedora-list-request at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:20 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> > >> Hello List,
> > >>
> > >> I find it baffling that the Office suite of choice for all Unixes,OOo
> > >> should not implement scrolling horizontally using the mousewheel when  
> > >> the
> > >> mouse is on the scroll bar in Linux.Ditto with Firefox.
> 
> [cut out feelings]
> 
> > > I don't know about what the community might say, but I would say that I
> > > find it baffling that someone would rather choose a public forum to
> > > announce their desires rather than go into redhat's bugzilla or Oo's bug
> > > reporting tool and make an entry.
> > 
> > Well,Craig, I agree it is only proper to report one's wishes and  
> > observations in the right place.(bugzilla). All users owe that much to the 
> 
> > open developer community.
> > 
> > But in my case I was not fully sure it was a bug or inadequacy, though I  
> > have felt this for quite a while. I wondered if it's not my own ignorance.
>  
> [cut out more feelings]
>  
> All feelings aside, I for one can scroll with the mousewheel in both
> Firefox and OpenOffice (on FC4), so you may be having another problem,
> or at least one that is not necessarily a bug with said applications.

Sorry Parameshwara, I overlooked the word "horizontal" in your original
mail, so please ignore my previous remarks. You are right it doesn't
scroll horizontally in both applications.

Otto


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