31 mouse buttons via kde's 'qt-copy'

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Provide an extended version of the Qt 'MouseEvent' class, supporting buttons through #31 (for X11 only). Extended Class would add a method to get the full-width Mouse Button State mask (a 32-bit mask field), and a method to obtain the Button Number which was responsible for the most recent event.

Would resolve bugs 34362, 48062, and their duplicates. (These are both top-20 bugs, with THOUSANDS of Votes.)

Creation Date	03-Nov-2011
Status	Not yet written, but conceptual design exists in the corresponding Qt bug (QTBUG-19238). The Qt bug died when 4.x series was declared 'dead'. With some assistance and aggressive work, and limiting the scope to just a few of Qt's numerous input plugins, this could be completed in time for 4.8 KDE code freeze. Several files and classes would need to be be re-coded, but their changes would be transparent to the programmer of a KDE Application. Users would need to have the correct versions of these libraries. (The 'new' versions of the other files are binary-compatible with old programs, but also capable of setting the new bit and integer which indicate the a high-numbered Button created the Event.) Once written, this scheme could be applied to Qt-5 as well. (Qt-5 code, pulled from Gitorious a few weeks ago, supports no more mouse Buttons than Qt-4. It doesn't yet improve upon the bad implementation of earlier Qt Versions.) And yes, all of this should have been done within the Qt project itself.
Maintainers	Primary Lead and Contact Person: Rick Stockton (community ID 'Rickst29', email address '[email protected]'. Also reachable via the mailing list, '[email protected]'

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Primary Modules

Name of module	Description of changes
KHotNewStuff	Default icon changed from favicon to khns

Secondary Modules

Name of module	Description of changes
KHangMan	Icon on Get New Puzzles button should be updated to use khns icon

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TODO

Milestone name	Milestone description	Assigned to	Status
Update KHNS Class	Update KHNS class to call khns icon	Jeremy Whiting	In Progress

Completed

Milestone name	Milestone description	Assigned to	Status
Create KHNS Icon	Need a dedicated icon for KHNS	Nuno Pinhero	Completed (12-Nov-2009)

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