#15857: [Preferences/Input] Keyboard gaining severall entries
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Reporter: nephele | Owner: PreetpalKaur
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Preferences/Input | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
Creating multiple entries is not necessarily a problem (HID devices can be
composite, for example keyboard+mouse in a single device), but we probably
need some filtering there, because our current logic is something along
the lines of:
- Is this a mouse?
- Is this a gamepad/joystick?
- Is this a wacom tablet?
- Ok, must be a keyboard then!
And a lot of useless "devices" get promoted to keyboards. This was not
visible when there was no way to list input devices, but now it is.
The HID report for that keyboard (automatically written to /tmp when you
connect it) may confirm this.
As for the devices not being removed, I don't remember seeing that. My
mouse currently creates I think 3 devices, but they all are removed when I
unplug it.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15857#comment:2>
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