OOo and Firefox in Linux - Unrequited Love

[Otto de Voogd (Fedora List)]

--- 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.

Otto


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