Comment 5 for bug 198313

I would say that this is a definite necessity. It's pretty much accepted that mice should "just work" but they can't really be said to "just work" if not all buttons work.

Ideally I think that ubuntu should should ship with a sane set of defaults such as side buttons being forward and back. Obviously this wont suit everyone so perhaps a graphical configurator should be added to the present Mouse dialog under preferences. Maybe it should have a series of "Button 1" , "Button 2" etc widgets that "light up" when the corresponding button is pressed and drop down boxes with common actions such as forward, back, left click, right click and finally an option for a keyboard combination. That should probably launch a pop-up that would just take whatever keys are pressed.