Side Buttons Support

[Marcello1099]

The software is fantastic! An additional feature I can think about would be side button support for back and forward.

[lujjjh]

Thank you very much for your suggestions!

I'm using a mouse with back and forward buttons, which works perfectly. Are you proposing adding support for customizing mouse buttons (like SteerMouse)?

[Marcello1099]

I was thinking more of something like SensibleSideButtons where an incompatible external mouse with side buttons would work. I have seen some that do it through gestures or back as command + [ and forward as command + ]

[lujjjh]

Thanks for the clarification. I think I get what you're talking about. This is a useful feature and I'll add it into the backlog.

SensibleSideButtons' approach (by generating a gesture) makes more sense. :) However, because the source code is licensed under the GPLv2, I'll have to implement it myself.

[lujjjh]

@Marcello1099 I found that linking a GPLv2 library in MIT licenced code is permissible, so I grabbed the Touch's implementation. Anyway, a universal back and forward is available in v0.2.7. Feel free to have a try.

[Marcello1099]

Works great!

[skareel]

Please add support for remapping side buttons to other functions. I used steermouse before to map button 4 and button 5 to scrolling up and down in browsers and other programs. I believe you could set how many lines it scrolled too in steermouse so they functionality in here would be amazing

[lujjjh]

You can track this in #244.