Re: Input devices capplets

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:59 +0100, Denis Washington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created two mockups for possible keyboard and mouse capplets in GNOME
> 2.20. Their aim is to incorporate accessibility features in both; the
> existing keyboard a11y features into Keyboard and the already discussed
> Mousetweaks settings into Mouse. The mockups can be found here:
> 
> Keyboard: http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/keyboard.html
> Mouse:    http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/mouse.html
> 
> What do you think?

I would be tickled pink if somebody made the mouse preferences
tool capable of setting certain things on a per-mouse basis.
Some use cases:

*) My laptop has a touchpad, but I far prefer using an actual
mouse.  I use the touchpad when I have to, but plug in a mouse
when I have desk space.  My preferred speed settings for the
touchpad are much different than for the mouse.

*) To offset wrist pain, I've tried to teach myself to mouse
left-handed.  I'm reasonably OKish at it, but I still prefer
using the right for things where I need to be fast and precise
(like games).  It would be nice to have two mice, one set to
left-handed, the other to right-handed.

I blogged about this not long ago and got some comments.  In
particular, Anders Olsson says "I myself am using a total of
six different pointing devices in different combinations."
So I'm at least not the only person weird enough to want this
functionality.

(I suspect my first use case is probably the most common use
of this proposed feature.  Lots of people prefer mice, but
will use their laptop's built-in pointing device when they
have to.)

--
Shaun