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From: | Alexander Huntley |
Subject: | bug#50269: 27.2; Request: use GTK continuous scroll events for smooth touchpad scrolling |
Date: | Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:02:00 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 |
Then I don't think I understand what you'd like Emacs to do in this case, and how would that be different from pixel-scroll-mode. Please tell more.
Modern touchpads offer more precision than scroll wheels, so it is possible (e.g. in Firefox, using libinput drivers) to make the view scroll by just 1 or 2 pixels using small movements. As a result, the scrolling corresponds closely to the hand movement on the trackpad. This feels good (like scrolling on a touchscreen). Emacs (because it ignores this higher-precision scrolling data) basically quantizes the available scroll positions, which ought to be continuous. This makes scrolling on Emacs feel more abrupt than in other apps. pixel-scroll-mode does not fix this; it just provides an animation between scroll positions. The available positions remain quantized at line boundaries.
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