Re: Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30

[Steve Lee <steve fullmeasure co uk>]

2009/12/11 David Colven <Colven ace-centre org uk>:
> Sorry if I’m being dum – I am down with flu at the moment – but I don’t see
> why a joystick switch inout should not do exactly what the daisy reader
> wants.  Window will not react to input from a USB fire button unless it’s
> told to, will ot?

Yes that is exactly correct. AFAIK the foot switch was a USB HID - ie
same as joystick. So the point was that sometimes having events
ignored by the OS can be useful.

Windows doesn't treat joysticks as first class input devices that all
programs must support (like mouse and keyboard). The same with default
X. I'm not familiar enough with the X switch stuff that Willie
mentioned, but get the impression switch events become first class
events so applications including desktop may react. As I said  it was
an "aside".

Steve