Re: [PATCH 3/5] input: wacom: Add support for the Bamboo Touch trackpad(rev3)

From: Henrik Rydberg
Date: Fri Sep 03 2010 - 09:06:40 EST


On 09/03/2010 03:01 PM, Ping Cheng wrote:
[...]

> + input_report_key(input, BTN_LEFT, (data[1] & 0x08) != 0);
> + input_report_key(input, BTN_MIDDLE, (data[1] & 0x04) != 0);
> + input_report_key(input, BTN_4, (data[1] & 0x02) != 0);
> + input_report_key(input, BTN_RIGHT, (data[1] & 0x01) != 0);
>
> Since you are assigning meaningful defaults to three of the tablet
> buttons instead of using BTN_#, can we move one more step to make the
> fourth button useful out-of-box too? I am thinking of something like
> BTN_FORWARD and BTN_BACK while getting rid of the BTN_MIDDLE. So, it
> would be:
>
> input_report_key(input, BTN_LEFT, (data[1] & 0x08) != 0);
> input_report_key(input, BTN_FORWARD, (data[1] & 0x04) != 0);
> input_report_key(input, BTN_BACK, (data[1] & 0x02) != 0);
> input_report_key(input, BTN_RIGHT, (data[1] & 0x01) != 0);
>
> Does this make sense to you?


Well, this is all a matter of taste, isn't it. If middle-button emulation works
out of the box, for the benefit of us old X users who seem unwilling to ever let
go of the click-to-paste functionality, then I would not mind terribly.

Henrik
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