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Submitted:  Feb 20 2006

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Right now the support for mouse configuring in kde(kcontrol) is very limited. Right now you can chose different stuff like double click time, etc.
But really, nobody today actually buys a 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel. Today people want a mouse with a tilting scrollwheel, a thumbbutton, etc.
Right now, Its f*cking hard to configure that! (I don\'t know how)

My idea is that the user is allowed to choose his mouse in kcontrol, and kde takes care of the rest. Of course with the ability to modify what button does what.

Please excuse my gimp skills, I\'m not an artist, I only tried to visualize what I was thinking.



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 good idea

 
 by Hintzy on: Feb 20 2006  
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Actually, I do have just a two-button mouse with a scroll wheel. :-p The simplicity is what appeals to me. I tried a friend's MS "IntelliMouse Explorer" once and was constantly hitting the side buttons by accident, so I got a "Basic Optical Mouse" instead. Just stuck with what worked I guess!

Still, this is an excellent idea. We can configure keyboard shortcuts and actions, why not mouse buttons too? I would love for clicking my scroll wheel to bring up the little arrows and let me scroll with the mouse like what happens in windows. Or for middle-clicking a Firefox tab to close the tab like in windows (I have no clue what its trying to do now when I middle-click). Things like that.

Sorry to reference windows mouse actions, but when I use that at work and linux at home, I occaisionally try to do things the wrong way! (and curse windows for not being able to do it like linux!) ;-)

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 Re: good idea

 
 by RedNovember on: Feb 26 2006  
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In Firefox:
Edit > Preferences > Advanced
Check "Autoscroll". You might want to download a tab browsing extension for the other one.


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 qt...

 
 by thomas12777 on: Feb 20 2006  
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afaik the limiting factor here was qt.
due to windows(? - some other os than linux/X), they support only 3 buttons + a wheel and afaics the situation has not improved with qt4.

for some reason kde didn't derive a kmouseevent to support more buttons.
if this is a structural problem, we're not gonna see better mouse support.


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 Re: qt...

 
 by dbd on: Feb 20 2006  
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I don't think it is a structural problem, because I have managed to configure some of my extra mouse buttons. It's just far harder to do at the mo than it should be, definitely one of the things KDE 4 should fix.


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 Re: Re: qt...

 
 by thomas12777 on: Feb 20 2006  
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it's not a problem to configure and use the other mousebuttons for use with x - just qt based apps don't make use of them (listening to them in your app by listening to X directly is also not a problem, but they may cause trouble with qt's event chain in a global context)


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 KDE Module

 
 by masonmouse on: Feb 20 2006  
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Actually, I have only 2-button mice with scroll wheels connected to all of my computers and have no interest in having any other functionality than that. Too many buttons makes for too many mistakes. Anyways... what I would really like to really see in a similar vein is a KDE control module to allow for configuration on a per-device basis. For example, all the females in my family are left handed and all the males are right handed. Any computer that more than one person uses has to either have a left-handed mouse or a right-handed mouse but can't have both. Sure, you can put a mouse on each side of the keyboard, and I do, but the buttons are still backwards on one of them although I think you can rearrange the button order in the xorg.conf file but I'd still rather see a KDE interface to it.


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 Re: KDE Module

 
 by stephanw on: Feb 21 2006  
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This is a great idea... KDE needs this.

Also a configuration menu for additional multimedia keys on the keyboard is missing and should be implemented in KDE4 / KDE4s Apps.


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 Good Idea

 
 by Tortanick on: Nov 27 2006  
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I have a seven button mouse (though two buttons are used to chance sensitivity) and I'd like to be able to change what the mouse buttons do.


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