Bug 112283

Summary:	It would be nice to have a mouse click test dialog
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	seth arnold <sarnold>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version:	3.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description seth arnold 2003-12-17 01:46:26 UTC

One of the first steps the graphical anaconda installer asks the user
to select is the mouse protocol, type, and number of buttons.

There is no way to test if the default (or any of the selected
choices) actually supports the third mouse button; I'd appreciate a
little applet on this page that shows when each mouse button is
depressed and released.

Thanks

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-12-17 01:58:36 UTC

I wrote some code to do this once... the question is just integrating
it into the UI nicely (well, and finding the code, but it took me like
10 minutes to write, so ... :-)

The other problem is that we don't instantly change the mouse protocol
and in some cases *can't* change it without completely screwing up the
X server :/

Comment 2 seth arnold 2003-12-17 02:02:26 UTC

Oh. A tool that works -once- but not on the other choices is probably
negative value to include.. and somehow I expect "We'll restart X,
check back in ten seconds" is really too much to ask.

Thanks for the explanation Jeremy. :)

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-02-12 17:37:50 UTC

With X getting unhappy on mouse protocol changes and 2.6 making
differences in mouse protocols somewhat superfluous, not going to do this.