Comment 7 for bug 166919

A couple of notes. It is possible to set the mouse to pen
mode for inkscape only, which makes inkscape usable, but it
makes changing between inkscape and other applications
frustrating. It is also rather uncomfortable to use the
mouse as a pen.

The checkin that caused this problem was
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1253738&group_id=93438&atid=604308