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> I've seen so many apps implement this. It's so odd. If I can bring my cursor to the widget I can probably click on the right item instead of scrolling. The only case I imagine this would be useful would be for accessibility.

For me personally, it lets me think of desktops in terms of what is left or right of them, rather than what actual number it is, i.e my Steam desktop is to the right of my browser desktop and to the left of my remote session. If I need to go to the email desktop from where I'm at, it's two scrolls away. I usually leave a little bit of the desktop visible on each virtual desktop to facilitate this.

So, not an accessibility thing for me but an actual preference. People are different. I know, it shocked me too.



I see. In every program that supported this I've triggered it by accident so often I had to disable it.


Even now I occasionally use the scroll wheel and not realize my mouse is out of my window and have the same moment of surprise so I can relate.




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