[PATCH evdev] Remove AUTO feature of middle mouse button emulation.

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

[ FYI: That's the bug report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28263 ]

On 28/05/10 16:29, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 07:04:15AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Peter Hutterer wrote:
>>> There's not a lot of two-button mice around anymore though, so arguably we
>>> should start caring about more important things.
>>
>> There are a ton of laptops with only two buttons on their trackpads though
>> (although if all those go through the synaptics driver instead, I suppose
>>  it's not a problem to change the drivers used for normal mice).
> 
> To be honest though, I'd argue that the sorts of people who use the
> middle button are the sorts of people who wouldn't be particularly
> bothered by toggling a preference to do it, and 'enable middle button
> emulation' is a more obvious checkbox than 'make input latency not
> shit'.
> 
> That being said, similar to the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace thing, I expect a
> mailbox of furious outrage if this does actually go through.

Hm, who'd fill that mailbox? If the touchpad driver is not affected, the
laptop people won't care.
People who are actually using the 3-button-emu on a 3-button mouse? I
don't know, but i doubt that there are too many. For them, a GUI option
would be nice, but well.
On the other hand we have a whole generation of Linux users suffering
from this - probably most just think something like "hmm, windows feels
snappier".


Thanks,

Jakob