On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 14:26 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > On jeu., 2011-03-17 at 14:14 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Chase Douglas [2011-03-17 8:57 -0400]: > > > We've received a request to enable two finger scrolling by default in > > > Ubuntu. After querying some of our uTouch and X developers, everyone > > > seems to be in agreement that this is a good idea. > > > > This is in fact a request that I also already heard more than once > > from friends of mine. It has been possible to enable this using some > > xinput commands, but enabling it by default might be nice indeed. > > > > It would be even better to add an option to gnome-mouse-properties > > for this, of course :) > This is already present in Maverick if I'm not mistaken. (At least it's > present, maybe it doesn't work...) > > The problem I can see with this is that two-finger scrolling can only be > the default when the touchpad supports it. We need to fallback to > scrolling from the side of the touchpad, else it would be a regression > for many users. > > > Regards > > >
Yes, the option already exists in gnome-mouse-properties. I've just confirmed on my laptop that edge-scrolling *is* disabled when turning on two-finger scrolling. My touchpad doesn't support two-finger scrolling, so that would be a pretty bad out-of-the-box experience for me (and other people in this situation) if we went ahead and did this. Regards Chris
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