As stated in upstream report:

"It's totally visible to the libwnck developers. The only way to elevate this is
to provide a patch -- it's all a matter of priorities, and there are some
things that I personally consider more important to fix in libwnck. Note that
it really shouldn't be hard to do..."

Indeed, a simple band-aid fix probably only involves:
- adding a gconf setting for disabling this behavior
- in libwnck, check the gconf setting in the scroll-event handler, and ignore 
the scroll-event if value is set
- build and publish a new libwnck package with that patch

This would make it possible for users to work around this usability
problem, by using some gconf command line.

In the long run, it would be nice to either expose the gconf setting in
some UI (in panel applet config dialog?), or detect if a scroll event
comes from a touchpad, and ignore it in that case (this might be
difficult to implement, though). But for now, it would be a huge
improvement if users could just manually disable this annoying behavior.

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Offer option to disable scroll wheel on task list
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39328
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