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

[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>]

On 09/03/2010 03:01 PM, Ping Cheng wrote:
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> +	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