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[Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Dicks  wrote on 2010-03-16: 
> Perhaps the defaults for those keys could be changed to give the Jaunty behaviour back?

And then users who started using Ubuntu during the Karmic era will file
a bug that Lucid changed the defaults and broke their habits, just as we
are blaming Karmic here.

Alvaro Kuolas  wrote:
> This is only a Debian/Ubuntu patch that causes so much trouble?

No, what causes the trouble is upstream development in GNOME.

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In fact, I am not fully content with my patch, for two reasons.

First and foremost, the Synaptics tap-to-button mapping is only updated
whenever gconf settings change for button assignments, the master tap-
to-click on/off switch, or the left/right-handed switch. The right thing
to do would be to watch for every DeviceMappingNotify on every input
device, so that if the user remaps buttons via e.g. xinput, taps
continue working without the user having to go disable/re-enable them. I
have not yet managed to get that working, and that is going to be a
large change that is better off in the next development phase.

Second, Ubuntu includes corner taps in the definition of tap-to-click,
as opposed to GNOME who don’t. This means that in Ubuntu the corner-to-
button mapping needs similar treatment — for device button mapping and
for customization. I will do an update as time allows.

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Action for middle and right click is reversed since jaunty
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