Greetings Dmitry, > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:19:56AM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: >> On most linux-based systems, the right and middle buttons are used >> extensively. On computers lacking either of those buttons, such as >> the Apple Macbooks, emulation is needed. This patch adds emulation >> of the missing buttons via two-fingers-and-click and three-fingers- >> and-click operations, which has recently become standard, both in >> MacOS and in the Xorg synaptics driver. >> > > The standard way of emulating right and middle button presses for > "button-deficient" devices is to use Macintosh emulation > (MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN) that works not only for touchpads but for regular mice > as well. I have a hard time believing that in five years from now, people will still consider pressing a key on the keyboard the standard way to emulate a right click. Nevertheless, I can see the point in moving away from user-land decisions in the kernel. I will not pursue this one further, although it is a rather neat piece of functionality. > Overall I don't think we should enhance mousedev for scenarios where > proper solution is to install Synaptics X driver. This also goes for > your other patch improving tapping in mousedev. Regarding the tapping patch; it is addressing the correctness of already implemented functionality. I can see nothing wrong with that. Henrik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
