[PATCH 0/7] Metacity mouse button configuration and control-center support

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds linux-foundation org>

To: gnomecc-list gnome org

Subject: [PATCH 0/7] Metacity mouse button configuration and control-center support

Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:58:47 -0800 (PST)

This email will be followed by 7 further emails with patches, comprising of two series: - a series of 5 patches to metacity to allow configuration of mouse button events. Patches against metacity-2.17.5. Patches 1-3 are just preparatory cleanup work, with some code movement and abstraction, with patch 4 being the real change-over, and the final patch being a small final tweak. Patches 1-4 were sent out yesterday to what hopefully are the proper maintainers, but I'm re-sending them all to gnomecc-list because the _next_ series is: - a series of 2 patches to control-center, to actually extend the double-click configuration to also handle middle- and right-click. The first patch is purely perparatory cleanup, the second patch has all the real meat. People have told me that this is clutter and unnecessary complexity. I obviously disagree. My main laptop has a two-button mouse, and that together with various historical reasons means that I want my right button to do something useful. I always found the inability of the standard gnome window manager to handle that to be a deal breaker. So I decided to do something about it. Let's see if people are actually interested in improving gnome, or will just complain about the horrible complexity. Linus