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[Evgeny Kuznetsov <evgkuz@xxxxxxxxx>]

David, please consider the following: nearly all touchpads have hardware
buttons for right-click. Nearly none of them has a hardware button for
middle-click. It takes an unhuman skill to perform a 3-finger tap, so
with 2-finger tap assigned to right-button, the only usable way to
perform a middle click is to plug in a mouse. Middle clicks are of great
use in Linux (clipboard insertion to name one of the essential things),
so having no way to do them is a bad bad choise.

Anyway, that's not what the bug was about. The bug was about the fact
that there was no way to change the default behaviour at all. Now there
is a way (or will be, as soon as Alberto's upload builds), and that's
the fix. What the default setting should be is another topic altogether.

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Touchpad: Action for middle and right click is reversed since jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432814
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