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Re: Mouse handling

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On 2026-09-26 20:21, Paul wrote:
> On Sat, 9/26/2026 1:47 PM, Mike Easter wrote:
>> Marco Moock wrote:
>>> Use xev to check if your mouse is ok. The switches inside can fail and start to chatter, so a single "click" results in many of them.
>>
>> Yeah.

Hardware is fine. Happens in more than one computer, and only in 
Thunderbird.

>>
>> He said:
>>> Only happens in Thunderbird.
>>
>> Sometimes what may seem to be a 'misleading' datapoint can be because the human-device interaction may be 'different' for one app vs another.
>>
> 
> There is a Gestures addon for Thunderbird.
> 
> All it would take, is for a dev to slide in a "short click"
> versus "long click", to have introduced a Gesture into
> an interface. Accessibility requirements, may preclude doing
> things like that (the interface must be kept simple so
> that a wide range of people can use it).
> 
> Some softwares, include a balloon dialog, the first time the
> user triggers a gesture, in order to ensure the user is
> informed of the interface change.
> 
> Other than that, softwares don't typically include a "gesture monitor"
> so that the user can see a list of recently triggered events.
> XEV is interested in raw "events" (key_down, key_up), rather than
> in the interpretation of what a certain sequence might mean.

Mmm.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Mouse handling "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-26 12:19 +0200
  Re: Mouse handling Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-09-26 19:15 +0200
    Re: Mouse handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-09-26 10:47 -0700
      Re: Mouse handling Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-09-26 14:21 -0400
        Re: Mouse handling "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-09-28 13:55 +0200

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