On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 16:14, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On Friday, February 4, 2011, Rick Stockton wrote: >> Background for my question: >> >> Different mice, even different mice from the SAME manufacturer, >> sometimes emit different X11 Button numbers for the same button. For >> example, the tilt wheel on Logitech's V220 emits Button6 for "Scroll >> Left" and Button7 for "Scroll Right" -- while Logitech's LX6 emits >> Button11 for "Left" and Button12 for "Right". > > is it possible to identify these mice (or at least some/most of them) when > they are plugged in? if so, could we then build a list of "known" mice with > configurations mapped to them for optimal defaults?
This should be simply detectable by USB IDs, shouldn't it? It would then "just" be a matter of compiling a database of such information. >> Should we add an enhanced Button Mapper as part of this project? My vote >> is YES, because > > agreed. +1 >> Question 2: Should we push the user-selected map down to only Qt, or all >> the way down to X11? > > if possible, this would be great imho. > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > humru othro a kohnu se > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
