Add two-finger scrolling/two-finger tapping to Touchpad options
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-control-
I did notice that options for touchpad tapping, vertical scrolling, and horizontal scrolling are now included in the Mouse preferences.
This is definitely a great improvement over having to configure these options in xorg.conf - hardly a trivial task for new Windows converts.
However, there are still a few options that can't be configured from here that would be incredibly helpful to have here.
The particular options I am referring to are:
* Sensitivity options - this is one of the things Walt Mossberg complained about in his Ubuntu review...
* 1/2/3 finger tap - allow these to be assigned to right, middle, or left click as the user wishes
* two-finger scrolling - this is what Macs use by default, and the synaptics driver allows for this.
* circular scrolling - also available through Synaptics driver
* corner taps - these are quite useful on my MacBook, as I errantly tap a lot but still want an actual button for right-click
Also, it may be a good idea to use Mac-like defaults for appletouch touchpads and Windows-like defaults on all other touchpads - that way, everything behaves as the user expects it to (in most cases)...
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
assignee: | nobody → mjg59 |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
assignee: | nobody → ubuntu-desktop |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
assignee: | ubuntu-desktop → nobody |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | William Grant (wgrant) → nobody |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | William Grant (wgrant) → nobody |
I agree this would be an awesome option to have on Ubuntu. There seem to be some bugs with the current two finger scrolling though and may need to be worked out first.
However, I don't agree about making it default depending on the machine.