On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Ryan Prior <ryanpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Marco Kirchberger > <ma...@e-kirchberger.de> wrote: > > Hello all, > > today the most mouse devices have extra keys for forward and backward > > navigation in different applications. > > I think that the mouse sends an alt+left or alt+right (to my knowledge > there's no special API for reading hardware forward/back commands.) > Not true. Most applications treat them the same as an alt+left/right, but they do appear separately. If you open xev, for example, the back/forward buttons on my mouse appear as ButtonPress events (with button values of 8 or 9), whereas alt+left/right appear as KeyPress events. I don't know that alt+left/right would be an appropriate default > shortcut for moving between lenses, but if there were a way to > configure that behaviour, it could be nice for power users. > I don't see why it would make a bad default - those key-combos aren't used for anything else in the dash right now. Just my two cents, Evan
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