Hi Enrico On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:43:47PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > Short list of things that break that I found so far: > - Aptitude menus > - My 10th and 11th VC > - Keyboard access to the OpenOffice.org stylist > I guess many more are coming if I spend more than 1 minutes on it. > > So, what is this thing doing to my system? > > README.Debian > doesn't say anything about the mappings. > README > doesn't say anything about the mappings. > man mouseemu > doesn't say anything about the mappings. I agree. The manpage misses the information about how to find the keycodes and the -help switch.
> mouseemu --help > just starts mouseemu. It's mouseemu -help > /etc/default/mouseemu > has brief notes about mappings that are commented out (are they the > default ones, or an example on how to change them?). OK, I will probably add some more comments there. > > How am I supposed to find out? Even the default setup of mouseemu is > undocumented. As it is now, the only way to see how it works seems to > be to try out all key combinations. > > Now I'd like to reconfigure mouseemu to something saner (which allows me > to access those functions that F10 and F11 were actually useful for in > my system): > - What are those numbers I have to provide to its switches? > -> undocumented. They are in /usr/src/kernel-headers-*/include/linux/input.h or can be shown by the showkey utility in a console. > - How do I disable mouse mapping, keeping only the "disable touchpad > while typing" feature? > -> undocumented. The default mappings provided by upstream are F10 and F11. On my system these mapping worked quite well because I don't use these keys. But I'd like to discuss a better way for the default configuration. I see the following options: 1) leave the default as it is and just give better documentation on how to change it. (Do you think that a debconf note would be justified in this case?) 2) Change the default to not do any mouse button emulation by default. This will probably annoy other users, but is a safer option. 3) Add some debconf questions to configure wheter the different features should be activated or not. I'm not sure if this is really worth the effort. 4) something else? > > A shame, because the package has got the potential to be really useful. Sorry, your bug report shows me how difficult it is to package an application one knows quite well in a way that things obvious to me are also documented for others. It's not that I deliberatly underdocumented this package or that I didn't care enough. I spent enough time packaging it that I also want it to be usefull. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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