diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 28c6a3e4c7..af7a3df359 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-02-08  Richard Hult  <richard@imendio.com>
+
+	* gdk/quartz/gdkevents-quartz.c (gdk_event_translate): Ignore the
+	delta from the NSEvent for now, generating multiple scroll events
+	results in a lot of events getting queued up and things get really
+	slow.
+
 2008-02-08  Sven Herzberg  <sven@imendio.com>
 
 	Adjust the code to match the documentation, examples, "common sense"
diff --git a/gdk/quartz/gdkevents-quartz.c b/gdk/quartz/gdkevents-quartz.c
index 832646cd6b..aded4d4d07 100644
--- a/gdk/quartz/gdkevents-quartz.c
+++ b/gdk/quartz/gdkevents-quartz.c
@@ -1781,6 +1781,9 @@ gdk_event_translate (NSEvent *nsevent)
 	    event = create_scroll_event (window, nsevent, direction);
 	    append_event (event);
 	    dy--;
+
+            /* Ignore the delta for now, things get too slow when the events queue up. */
+            break;
 	  }
 
 	/* Now do x events */
@@ -1797,6 +1800,9 @@ gdk_event_translate (NSEvent *nsevent)
 	    event = create_scroll_event (window, nsevent, direction);
 	    append_event (event);
 	    dx--;
+            
+            /* Ignore the delta for now, things get too slow when the events queue up. */
+            break;
 	  }
 
       }