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

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri May 28 07:29:30 PDT 2010


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.

Cheers,
Daniel
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