Comment 29 for bug 39328

Wanted to chime in on how annoying this "feature" is. In particular the desktop switch when mouse wheel event occurs on desktop. Whats worse is that certain parts of some GTK interfaces (labels, for example on the nvidia-settings program) and other unexpected parts of some GUIs will also cause this desktop switching behavior, despite the fact the cursor is over the application window (its really bad when its things like the trough near a scroll bar). I've been using Linux for about 12 years now and gnome since early 1.0 releases and its things like this, that make it feel like its progressing backwards in usability, probably an exaggeration, but reflects just how $&*@ing annoying this is. I think this option should be disabled by default. If some masochistic user wants to enable it, give them a gconf option somewhere, call it something like "/desktop/gnome/really-annoying-desktop-switch-mouse-wheel-hell".