Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#16225 new enhancement

Input: Mouse representation for 3+ button mice does not make sense

Reported by: bitigchi Owned by: PreetpalKaur
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Preferences/Input Version: R1/beta2
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

It's fairly obvious that a 5-button mouse does not look like the current implementation in Input preferences. Maybe move the 4th and 5th button to the thumb area, divided into two?

Change History (3)

comment:1 by bitigchi, 4 years ago

Possible solution: Limit mouse shape buttons to 3, in order: 1, 3, 2 -- display the rest outside of the mouse with small rectangles.

comment:2 by humdinger, 4 years ago

display the rest outside of the mouse with small rectangles.

Sounds good to me.

comment:3 by pulkomandy, 4 years ago

Well, 3 button mouse does not usually look like our representation either, the 3rd button is the mouse wheel.

The current code for drawing the buttons is a bit too limited, and ideally I'd go as far as recognizing the mouse from vendor/device ID and showing a more accurate representation of it. But we will need a lot of pictures of mouses, and people converting them to SVG or HVIF or something so they can be included :)

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