Re: btnx: Send keyboard and mouse combination events with mouse buttons
Well, for most of these things it's a problem with the hardware (which usually requires drivers). Of course none of these companies offer drivers usually, meaning it has to be built up from the ground by people. The people who work on Ubuntu spend most of their time designing the actual operating system itself. Not the drivers for the hardware.
Think about it this way. If you have a logitech mouse you have to install the drivers (setpoint) in Windows to get everything working. Otherwise you only have the three main buttons (plus scroll) working only. Don't install setpoint? Well all those buttons are useless. And it'd be crazy if the people who worked on the operating system had to work on both the operating system and drivers for the wide range of hardware out there. Hell Microsoft can't even do it (the only reason why most hardware works with them is because they've been in the operating system business since the beginning and wound up with a large large marketshare so companies have to make stuff that works on a Microsoft OS).
Of course what you could do is try to get everyone to use a uniform system of designing hardware so writing the drivers won't be so hard . But that's harder then even asking the companies to have support for Linux lol.
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