[Qt5-feedback] X11 mouse buttons in qt4, qt5, and KDE: please, PLEASE review this design.

[Konrad Rosenbaum]

On Thu, July 28, 2011 16:29, Ivan wrote:
> As soon as we have only 10 fingers, it seems be sufficient:)

Just for fun: I tried how many buttons I can push with only one finger. On
my mouse I was only limited by the three buttons that it has. On my
keyboard I could press considerably more: in the range of 5 per finger at
once and all of them in sequence... ;-)

> In fact, user can't press more than 5 buttons at the same time (if he has
> no more than 5 fingers on one hand, of course), so supporting device with
> 32+ buttons seems useless.

I believe Joystick events are often relayed as mouse events and I have
seen joysticks with more than 30 buttons (only god knows what game
designer tortures his vict^Wcustomers with a choice of 30 ways to
annihilate innocent pixel monsters).


  Konrad