Allow permanent / preferred mouse device assignment
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Description
Similar to #12924 can this nifty reservation/preferred assignment feature be extended to the Mouse device?
For example, an 8BitDo retro keyboard has dials on them that get detected in UDEV as a MOUSE type and RetroArch currently assigns it as the default Mouse (ugh) which requires manual intervention every to time to pick the HID device of the desired mouse device.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the reservation/preferred assignment feature in #12924 and tracing how UDEV identifies and assigns Mouse and HID devices. Done means a preferred Mouse device can be assigned permanently so controls such as those on the 8BitDo keyboard do not become the default, while the desired HID mouse remains selectable.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, linux
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100