GNOME improvement proposals

On Mi, 2005-11-16 at 18:20 +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:58 +0100, MadMan2k wrote:
> > I know that this does not really belong here, but in some gnome wiki or
> > something, but since I dont know such a appropriate place I'll post it
> > here and hope that you can redirect me...
> > 
> > 1) mouse sidebutton support
> > the scrollwheel is supported very well by gnome - it can be used to
> > scroll virtually every scrollbar by simply hovering it.
> > why cant the forward/backward sidebuttons found on many modern mice like
> > the logitech MX510 series be supported adequatly.
> > They should be used in every application which has forward/ backward
> > functionality, like nautilus, eog, rhythmbox etc.
> 
> A quick search got me theese:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318664
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316257
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314800
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108775
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321400
> 
> doesn't look like it's a high priority the gnome folks.
as you can see I opened some of them - but since there was no reaction
from the devs I had doubts that they read it at all.

Basically I want to upper the priority of this issue, so it will
be accepted as the default behaviour for GNOME apps.
This would be much more efficient than trying to open bug reports for
every app which might be affected by this...

M2k