I think we need to consider this a bit deeper. There is still hardware in the wild that appears to need this emulated functionality to do middle mouse button clicking, for example:
http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=643 ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710762 Title: Middle mouse button no longer works -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
