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  1. Bug #42678
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 42678

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: Logitech MX500 mouse forward/back buttons not detected

Xorg upstream is indeed focused on solving this via input-hotplug, which we expect to hit Ubuntu in a stable enough form by Hardy+1.

We had evaluated input-hotplug for Hardy, but after spending a good bit of time found it just was not mature enough - it actually made configuring non-default input settings *harder* than doing it in xorg.conf, so opted to stick with the devil we know. A GUI for adjusting settings to something other than defaults is definitely needed, and being discussed upstream with gnome-control-center (see gnomecc mailing list for discussion). Comment 13 is exactly right about the situation with all of this.