Ken2G5 wrote:
I've provided more information asking ANYBODY (else) if they actually have experience successfully installing KensingtonWorks despite what Kensington claims.
So Kensington itself was unable to get their software working? And you are asking if there are any other Apple customers with an M1 computer and your specific trackball who were able to succeed where the developers of the product itself had failed?
I was curious about this so I downloaded the installer. It is quite unusual. There are some interested comments in the postinstall scripts written in Chinese that suggest the developers themselves aren't sure if it is going to work.
It's working like a simple two-button mouse. It's working via USB connection but KensingtonWork says there's no USB connection and therefore no customization. Weird.
Unfortunately, that's really bad news. That tells me that those skeptical Chinese developers were right. Whoever hacked up the Kensington installer for Catalina and Big Sur did a terrible job. But it may not have been their fault. As ugly as that part of the installer is, you are reporting that it works, just without any customization.
The part that defines those customizations is written in the notorious "electron" framework. That may be the part that isn't working properly on M1. This is a cross-platform framework designed so that developers don't have to bother writing an actual Mac app. Apple went to great efforts to ensure that virtually all existing Mac software would run without modification on the new chip. Unfortunately, the electron framework does really crazy things, unlike any other app. It took a long time for its developers to get it working on Apple Silicon. It wouldn't surprise me that any app trying hardware integration via electron would have all kinds of problems. There's definitely no "circle of blame" here. Kensington took shortcuts and paid for it. As Peregrin Took says, "short cuts make long delays".
I'm afraid that you really have no option but to wait for the next version.
