Profiles for all -Input devices-

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Profiles for all Input Devices

The ability to configure multiple profiles for Input Devices in user Settings/Preferences is missing, imo.

Input devices:

• mices (4+ buttons)
• keyboards (small keyboards without numpad and office keyboards with numpad)
• tablets
• gamepads

Profiles are user-defined remapping settings and much more useful than generic, standard configurations.

Talking of graphic tablets, currently it's impossible to assign more than a profile in Mint. Each creative app (painting, 3d, video) comes with a particular set of features and needs therefore, to map very different shortcuts on a graphic tablet.

3rd party drivers for input devices in general aren't an ideal solution - to date, I wasn't able to use another graphic tablet driver, than the default one shipped with Mint (which works great btw), because 3rd party drivers for tablets just don't work on Mint and I have installed and tried a bunch of them.

Gamepads then, are not working at all on Mint. You need separate drivers for your gamepad. Drivers like "xboxdrv" and "ds4drv" are pretty old but still work.

Both drivers should be up to date and ship as installation option when installing Mint, as Linux is an excellent base to play games. Keyboards are only OK for point and click strategy games . Keyboards are unsuitable for ego shooters, where your reactive skills are much more important than your thinking skills.

Common input devices don't need particular configurations or drivers.

However, "better" mices with more buttons, the variety of graphic tablets in general and gamepads (xbox and playstation controllers) instead, really need multiple profiles.

Profiles to configure available input settings would make 3rd party drivers completely obsolete and user-specific.

Requirements for each input device are different and an all in one, standard configuration isn't a realistic solution.

Probably somebody would argue, for input profiles I do better to install particular drivers.

Exactly, that is the point, drivers. I don't wanna install all kind of drivers that interact with my system just to get input devices reliably running on every version of My Os.

Proprietary drivers don't get enough updates as the market continues to throw out new brand products all times. This means, brand drivers quickly become obsolete and for security reasons I really don't wanna install their older "brand" drivers if my device becomes obsolete in their view

Drivers for input devices should be covered by our Os instead, so all input devices work always as expected and interact with the kernel in the best way possible, specific for Linux and our distro in particular.