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Bug 74042

Summary: Dragging and mouse-wheel don't work concurrently.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: MrZaius <cragos>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description MrZaius 2004-12-10 15:14:31 UTC
Example 1: firefox-bin ignores the mousewheel while dragging text.
Example 2: XMMS stops dragging a file in the playlist when the mousewheel is used.

Is this an XFree86 error, or a design error on the part of the Moz and XMMS people?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
It should have continued dragging, while scrolling simultaneously.
Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-10 16:09:40 UTC
>Is this an XFree86 error, or a design error on the part of the Moz and XMMS people?

The latter, you'll have to get in contact with the developers of the respective applications. There's no common standard in this regard, beside the X protocol (x.org), so if you're more interested in the design aspect, you may want to take part in the efforts of freedesktop.org.