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dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au said:
> XFree86 isn't wedded to the idea of having the tap gesture work in
> this way -- that's just how it was done by the person who contributed
> the code to us.  I'm not familiar with the glidepoint devices.  What
> is the 'tap' usually used for (say, on an OS like Win95)?  It would be
> good if we can be consistent in the way we deal with this (at least
> for the default behaviour), and we'd be happy to change the way
> XFree86 treats it (probably providing an XF86Config option to enable
> the old behaviour). 

The Windows95 driver, for instance, treats the "tap" gesture as a left
mouse button click or drag.  This is a pretty natural thing to want to do
with the pointing device, since you often use the same fingers to drag 
across the surface of the pointing device as you would to operate on of
the mouse buttons.

I'm afraid I don't have any suggestions on the Microsoft Intellimouse,
having never seen or used one myself.

louie