Re: Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

2009-10-27 Thread John Dong
I just helped a Mac user the other day whose cat was stumbling across the keyboard as she scrolled and it ended up doing the zoom gesture. Completely unfamiliar with the feature, she was unable to restore the screen to original zoom level. So, no, while I feel super-scroll is obvious when

Re: Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

2009-10-27 Thread Joe Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: > You mean button 3 (the middle button is the "third" button as it was > added to mice after the main (left) button and the right button). > Ah, sorry, I did mean button 3. I think the Super+Scrollwheel is okay (and more discovarable), but may

Re: Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

2009-10-27 Thread John Dong
On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Jordan Mantha wrote: > > > I've accidentally hit this zoom thing many many more times than I ever > accidentally hit the dreaded Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. I've never figured > out a good > way to get out of it other than to reboot my computer so the effect > was about >

Re: Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

2009-10-26 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zondag 25-10-2009 om 02:20 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Joe Zimmerman: > I just recently installed Karmic RC, and happened to inadvertently > press Super+Button2 You mean button 3 (the middle button is the "third" button as it was added to mice after the main (left) button and the right butto

Re: Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

2009-10-25 Thread Jordan Mantha
I'm assuming you meant this to go to the list On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/10/25 Jordan Mantha : > > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > > > > >> I partly agree that it could be a usability issue (I was seriously > >> confused first time I hit this accidenta

Re: Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

2009-10-25 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > Interesting is that you hit this only in Karmic, it was enabled > already in Jaunty. > > I partly agree that it could be a usability issue (I was seriously > confused first time I hit this accidentally). Maybe some tip while > zooming (like 'use Win

Re: Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

2009-10-25 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Interesting is that you hit this only in Karmic, it was enabled already in Jaunty. I partly agree that it could be a usability issue (I was seriously confused first time I hit this accidentally). Maybe some tip while zooming (like 'use Windows key and and mouse scroll to zoom out' or whatever) cou

Compiz zoom scary, enabled by default in Karmic RC

2009-10-24 Thread Joe Zimmerman
Hi all, (First time posting to this list, so I apologize if this isn't the right place for such comments.) I just recently installed Karmic RC, and happened to inadvertently press Super+Button2 (this is not as crazy as it seems, since Button2 on my laptop is right below the space bar). This made