https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368849

--- Comment #5 from Tyson Tan <tysont...@gmail.com> ---
I have some information to add too, and not a good news.

On newer Surface models (maybe SP3 and newer) and most convertibles that uses
Wacom AES pen technology, the pen barrel buttons can't be mapped to both middle
click and right click. Under Windows you can only map the barrel buttons to
right click. Under Linux you can assign the upper button to anything, but the
lower button is locked as eraser mode trigger. I believe Wacom purposefully did
this to most Wacom AES digitizers they supplies to 3rd party manufacturers for
non-tablet portable PCs. The device's API is so over enigmatized there is no
way a person outside of Wacom can figure out how to customize the thing. I have
a Lenovo Yoga 730 that has exactly this problem and I can confirm that every
convertible (Dell, HP) I tested with a similar design that share pens, all of
them behaves the same. Only Lenovo Miix 520 can do the mapping properly (but it
is not an ideal competitor to MSP13 due to short battery life and small
screen). Thus Krita is having difficulty promoting itself to the users of most
Surface like owners.

So this bug is better off become a request of 2 new features:

1) Allow Krita to accept mouse click events while the stylus is in range. In
this way we can use a mouse/touchpad/trackball to recreate middle/right click.
Right now, I must lift up the stylus before Krita would accept any mouse
events.

2) The ability for Krita to map a stylus's eraser to something else, or just to
emulate right click or middle click.

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