mouse gestures not configurable with khotkeys KDE 4.1.2

[Chris]

Binary package hint: systemsettings

In Kubuntu 8.10 its not possible to configure mouse gestures.
The usual preconfigured gestures, are empty and its not possible to set gestures yourself.
You can use the configuration dialog normally, it recognizes the gestures, you apply the changes but its not saved.

To reproduce:
systemsettings -> Advanced -> Input Actions -> Gesture Settings
Uncheck Disable mouse gestures globally
-> Apply

Edit any predefined Action or create a new one. For example:
systemsettings -> Advanced -> Input Actions -> Konqueror Gestures -> Back -> Gestures -> Edit...
Press and hold the left mouse button while drawing the same mouse movement 3 times
-> OK
-> Apply

Now either test the configured gesture in Konqueror (it wont work) or select another Action (for example Close Tab) and go back to the previous action (e.g. Back). The previously added gesture will be gone.

The issue already affects the default configuration as all gestures are empty out of the box, while they should be pre-configured.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fix committed upstream for KDE 4.3, which will be included in the next release after Jaunty.

[Chris (chrw)]

Thanks for the information. Can you provide more information about the fix or maybe a link to the bug report upstream? I was not able to find it yet. Also, since Jaunty is still in Alpha and this seems completely broken still, will the fix be backported to Jaunty's KDE 4.2?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The link is up at the top of the page. (Thought at this very moment their bugtracker seems to be down) Due to the quite invasive changes needed to fix this bug this fix probably won't be backported. It's also why it was committed upstream for 4.3 only.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The fix has been released to the development version of Kubuntu 9.10.
Backported packages of the KDE 4.3 beta will be made available for Kubuntu 9.04 users in the next few days.