TrackPoint® zooming doesn't work under wayland

Bug #1718418 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Eye of GNOME
Confirmed
Medium
eog (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

On a computer featuring an advanced TrackPoint® pointing device (i.e. not a legacy physical mouse or touchpad)...

Login to Ubuntu 17.10 Xorg session
Open an image with eog
Use the TrackPoint® to zoom the image in and out
Success

Login to Ubuntu 17.10 Wayland "Ubuntu" session
Open an image with eog
Use the TrackPoint® to zoom the image in and out
Failure. It doesn't zoom.

You can still zoom with the keyboard - CTRL + and CTRL -.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: eog 3.25.92-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-13.14-generic 4.12.10
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 20 16:22:33 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-02 (79 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170712)
SourcePackage: eog
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in eog (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote : Re: Trackpoint zooming doesn't work under wayland

Seems it's specific to trackpoints (thinkpad nipples), not mouse wheels, so updated accordingly and linked to upstream bug.

summary: - Mouse-wheel zooming doesn't work under wayland
+ Trackpoint zooming doesn't work under wayland
description: updated
summary: - Trackpoint zooming doesn't work under wayland
+ TrackPoint® zooming doesn't work under wayland
Changed in eog (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in eog:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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