retiring gpointing-device-settings

[Dan Mashal]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at gmail.com> wrote:
> The package currently fails to build and upstream appears to be dead.
> Even the working package does not save settings.
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gpointing-device-settings/
>
> Problem: This is a useful package that controls touchpad settings.
>
> I have tried xfce4-mouse-settings from xfce4-settings but this
> obviously doesn't work since XFCE uses xfconf.
>
> Does anyone have any alternatives or suggestions?
>
> Otherwise we are losing some important functionality for GTK based desktops.
>
> One alternative is to fork xfce4-settings and migrate it to gsettings.
>
> Any feedback welcome.

Hi the package has been officially retired and will be blocked.

The fork of it known as "mate-mouse-properties" works wonderfully (and
should work on all GTK/gsettings compliant DEs) but is part of the
mate-control-center package.

We are working on splitting out the binary for those that want to use it.

Thanks,
Dan