[hardy] ksynaptics missing from repositories

[Joel Oliver]

Binary package hint: ksynaptics

ksynaptics touchpad software isn't in the hardy repos.

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

I can confirm this bug. Can you please set importance to wishlist? Thank you.

[Joel Oliver (joelol75)]

Shouldn't it be a little higher than wishlist? I can confirm the gutsy version does work in hardy, but it's not a big issue to compile the newer vesion (that hardys gsynaptics uses) and add it in the repos for us Kubuntu users.

[Oka Kurniawan (oka-kurniawan)]

I have upgraded from Kubuntu Gutsy to Hardy.

Previously in Gutsy my Ksynaptics works just fine. but when updgraded to Hardy, it doesn't seem to have any effect. It doesn't do anything when I changed the configuration in Ksynaptics.

Is this due to bug reported here? or should I report a new bug?

[Joel Oliver (joelol75)]

This is just the way that Hardy seems to be handling the xorg.conf file. It seems to remove many sections I guess "autoconfig'ing" everything. Of course you can revert back to the older way of doing things.... Look at the attached config file to get an idea of how to go about this.

[Larry Hartman (larryhartman50)]

I pulled this comment from the kubuntu users list:

Ksynaptics has stopped development:

http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/

Waiting for the replacement - TouchFreeze - to be added to the repos......

A look at the website suggests that TouchFreeze has a little way to go.

Larry

[Divan (divan-santana)]

I too would love to see a touchpad program working in hardy.
ksynaptics was great, even if its discontinued, it worked well and touchfreeze looks like its not easy to get working...

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Yes, this package has been removed since it is no longer maintained upstream.