Xorg and evdev mouse support

[teilo]

Does anyone know if there is ever going to be an attempt made to support the evdev protocol for mice in Xorg?

For those of us with the many-buttoned mice, this would eliminate a lot of headache trying to make things work with various Xmodmap and imwheel commands.

Both the Xfree86 and the Xorg docs claim that there is a USB device protocol. Go ahead and try to use it. It doesn't exist. Simply put, the evdev device is a USB device which allows all the buttons of an HID device to me recognized by X from the get go. Yes, you still need a proper z-axis-mapping line in xorg.conf, but that is ALL you should need. Every button press shows up as on X event, just as it should.

The remaining buttons could then be intercepted in various ways, and put to good use, and it wouldn't matter how many or few buttons your mouse had.

I know there was an evdev patch available for XFree86 3.3.x, but I keep hoping that Xorg will support this out the door. It only makes sense.
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