> We sat down at LWCE-NY and tried to discuss this, but it's not an easy > issue. > > Frankly, I think gpm ought to be re-written from scratch, stealing the > protocol interpretation code from XFree86. People are pretty good about > getting support for all their crazy mouse variants in X.
That is a good point. I did not think of it before, because all my mice worked under gpm so far (but I do not have wheel-"I don't know what"-mice). > > > 2. Tell the user during xf86config, that the gpm configuration can be > > reused > > (assuming that gpmconfig has the reuse default, i.e. Branden and Zephaniah > > should decide which way can be gone for potato and woody). > > I will add remarks to xf86config warning the user about this. Thanks. > > > 3. As a long term solution, a protocol name like Xnative instead of > > Microsoft > > would be nice. > > I think Merc had some evil plan for implementing a superset mouse protcol > into which any other protocol could be translated. When he gets further > along on this, I can maybe work with XFree86 upstream on the issue. Sounds great. --Rainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
