[gpm] Getting wheel events working again

[Rod Berriman]

After consideration, and some testing, I propose a minimal patch to get
the imps2 wheel operating again.

The essence of this patch is just a bug fix to one line in gpm.c that was
causing some wheel events to be suppressed:

-   if (!event->dx && !event->dy && (event->buttons==oldB))
+   /* rodney 13/mar/2008 wheel movement similar to mouse movement
+    * must also be excluded from time (click) processing */
+   if (!event->dx && !event->dy
+       && !event->wdx  && !event->wdy
+       && (event->buttons==oldB) )


Full patch is attached. Mainly added some comments here and there.

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My next point may be controversial, but I suggest to rename the 5 patches
in patches/todo/imwheel as patches/historical/imwheel

My reasoning is that:
1. the patches are too complicated. For example, who would need emulation
of the wheel on non-wheel mice?
2. the patches overlook the fact that there is already support for 2
wheels in the Gpm_Event, in the fields wdy and wdx. I don't see the need
to add more fields to the Gpm_Event.
3. there is some code about the wheel generating button events: I can't
understand why this was needed. I think the original idea, that the wheel
is a movement event, similar to the x/y movement of the mouse, makes a lot
of sense, and this is enough.

Comments most welcome,

Rodney,
Australia.
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