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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #1028754
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Comment 0 for bug 1028754

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Alvaro Leal (Effenberg0x0) (effenberg0x0) wrote :

When gnome-control-center / "Mouse and Touchpad" is used on a Desktop, the "Touchpad" tab is not displayed (only the "Mouse" one shows). This made complete sense until recently (Desktops normally don't have a Touchpad).

However, with new wireless/wired touchpads (like Apple Magic Trackpad, Logitech Wireless Touchpad, new keyboards with embedded touchpads, etc), actively supported by Kernel, this is not the case anymore.

If a touchpad is detected, even on a Desktop, wired or wireless, the "Touchpad" tab on g-c-c / "Mouse and Touchpad" should be displayed.

Moreover, the touchpad settings should be expanded and improved. These devices come with WIndows drivers and software that allows for 2/3/4-fingers gestures, speed/sensitivity, corners-actions, inertia settings. On Ubuntu (and Arch and other distros), people came up with udev and keymap based workarounds. But it would make sense to have it in a GUI for the ordinary users. gnome-control-center / "Mouse and Touchpad" seems to be the correct place.

I have already discussed this in Ubuntuforums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12128572#post12128572) and Brainstorm (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29977/). In both cases I was advised to post this is a bug.

Regards,
Effenberg