Bug 332732

Summary:	During installation yast forgets left handed mouse second after reboot
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Richard Bos <richard.bos>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Thomas Göttlicher <tgoettlicher>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	32bit
OS:	Linux
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Description Richard Bos 2007-10-10 19:25:04 UTC

Since I believe openSUSE-10.3 the installation program is able to detect
left handed mouse users and as such configures the mouse for a left handed
mouser, by swapping the functions of the outer mouse buttons.

openSUSE's installation requires a boot and after the reboot the mouse
settings are forgotten and the left handed mouse question is asked again.
Yast should be capable of remembering the left handed mouse setting after
the reboot.

Related logs can be obtained from:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332349#c2 This bug also explains
in a little more detail how the question can be obtained.

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2007-10-11 09:12:14 UTC

assigned to maintainer

Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2008-08-13 22:01:46 UTC

This is unrelated to yast2-x11. At the same location, where YaST does this

  xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

call some file could be touched. If it exists after reboot it is assumed that
there is a left handed mouse user.

Comment 3 Martin Vidner 2008-08-19 14:01:52 UTC

I believe that it is done inside yast2-qt.

Comment 4 Stefan Hundhammer 2008-08-19 14:38:11 UTC

Uh - I believe this is just too much (a typical case of "give them an inch, and they will take you a mile").

I think left-handed users can very well live with confirming this twice in the lifetime of that system. It's not as if you have to do this for every YaST2 start; it's only during initial installation and after the reboot.

This is done deep within the (Qt) UI which knows very little about the context (installation or whatever) it is running in.

I strongly vote for WONTFIX.

Comment 5 Thomas Göttlicher 2008-08-20 09:16:59 UTC

Swapping mouse buttons is a feature of yast2-qt to make installation easier for lefties while the mouse isn't properly configured. The ui isn't a good place for writing files for system configuration. Therefore I close this bug as WONTFIX.