2 finger scrolling based on finger width.

Steven Haigh netwiz at crc.id.au
Tue Oct 26 01:48:46 UTC 2010


On 25/10/10 16:30, Steven Haigh wrote:
> I'd love to see this fixed before release:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630671
>
> The majority works, the only thing that lets it down is the GUI to
> configure 2 finger scrolling on touchpad hardware that supports
> reporting finger width.
>
> I have added patch to the BZ by Chris Bagwell that adds support for
> allowing gnome-mouse-properties to allow 2 finger scrolling to be
> selected on hardware that supports reporting finger width as well as
> proper 2 finger scrolling.
>
> Probably in the NTH category - but it would be great to enable 2 finger
> scrolling on a whole range of hardware out of the box when F14 ships!
>

I have also been talking with Chris (the author of the patch) and his 
issues getting this fixed upstream. He says:

"A Gnome maintainer of gnome-mouse-properties seems to be MIA and I've
not found a good contact to drive submitting that patch.  Maybe
driving from distribution side is best idea for now.  I had thought of
some other improvements to that app but shelved it until I see its
more likely to get changes committed."

Are we in a position to help out here? The hard work is already done, it 
just needs some help to get fixed! :)

-- 
Steven Haigh

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