I'd like to be able to swap the mouse buttons. Or have the game respect the setting of my desktop enviroment. It'd also be nice if the mouse pointer could be made to point to the right instead of to the left, either when mouse buttons are swapped or as separate option.
I have since discovered that the game not respecting the mouse button settings of my desktop enviroment appears to be a flaw in SDL.
why would you need the features backwards in the first place? I can see the right instead of left click if your left handed but as for the arrow I don't think the cursor should make any difference and I think they make special mice for left handed people in the first place or at least a program that can do what your asking.
Some left-handed people have issues with right-left recognition. Yes, really. They look at the screen and want the cursor to move right, so they move their hand left. It's a by-product of them being taught that "right hand is the one with which you write" and having conflicting information about directions. For them, such an option is pretty important.
Funnily enough, I came across a programme which flipped the cursor for me earlier today, and it is actually really disorienting.
Yes, I am used to having the arrow point away from my hand, regardless of which hand I use. It feels off when it points the other way. Though DoD is not alone here. I don't think I've played any game with its own custom cursor that allows to change the direction it points. As for swapping the buttons, yes, there is a configuration option for the desktop enviroment (or more specifically the window manager?). I've also tried xmodmap. But Dungeons of Dredmor, when in fullscreen, ignores these settings and uses default right handed button mapping instead. But this is SDL's fault (or possibly xlib's or xfce's, I suppose), not DoD's.
Why not just suggest that it point neither dirrection as far as I can tell there's no real reason for it to point left
Because it's the standard way and the one we right-handed users find to make sense. Even a neutral (i.e. central) cursor would likely be somewhat irritating for some, although most people are fine with crosshairs (which function a little differently as you're using the centre of it, not a 'point'.
Nor did I, really, until I came across an instance where it had been flipped and it really confused me.
