Hello, I was recently browsing the web on a windows box and realized that over the last 4 years, I had forgotten how nice it is to be able browse back/forward with a single button click. So I set about enabling this functionality on my Debian box. I found this gentoo doc (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mouse_Nav_Buttons) very helpful.
Now, my question is, would it be possible to work toward supporting nav buttons "out of the box" in Debian? I know that there are probably a lot of issues because there is no hardware standard for the nav buttons, but maybe there would be a way to store configuration for all the hardware. The gentoo doc is geared toward enabling back/forward nav in mozilla only, so there may need to be some thought put into a way to generalize this. Is anyone else interested in making nav buttons work "out of the box", and would it be worthwhile to work on? This would likely involve (hopefully minor) changes to a lot of parts of the distribution. I think this capability is important because I remember when I first switched that I was disappointed that the nav buttons didn't work. I stuck with it, but it could be enough to turn away a significant number of new users who are stuck in the windows mud. One of the gnome HIG is along the lines of provide an interface that the user expects and don't suprise them. I look forward to any thoughts on this matter. Regards, Mike
