Bug 128976

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Hello,

I installed a computer to my grandfather, with kubuntu. Overall, it works for him pretty well.

Some time ago, he phoned me with a problem: the clock on the bottom of the screen showed the time in a different place. I came to him, and fixed it by choosing the local time zone from the menu, but didn't know how it was changed.

Now I discovered: I tried to scroll a web page, by moving the scrolling wheel of my mouse. I found out that instead of scrolling the page, the displayed time zone changed, because the pointer was on the clock.

For a better experience for people who don't understand computers very well, I think that the "time zone scrolling" feature should be disabled. I don't do a lot of travelling and I usually don't need to know the time at different times of the world, so I can't really judge on how important it to other people, but I think that avoiding strange behaviour for unexperienced people is more important than a bit of comfort for a what I think is a relatively small group of people. Why not put it as an option which can be enabled but is disabled by default?

Have a good day,
Noam Raphael