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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: gnome-control-center
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488856

Title:
  gnome-mouse-properties should allow touchpad edge scrolling AND two-
  finger scrolling

Status in GNOME Control Center:
  New
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

  gnome-mouse-properties now (in Karmic) offers an option to choose
  which kind of touchpad scrolling is desired.  Sadly, the choice is
  only between: disabled (no scrolling), edge scrolling, and two-finger
  scrolling.  There is no reason not to allow the user to have BOTH edge
  scrolling AND two-finger scrolling, as this is permitted by the xinput
  layer and the underlying touchpad driver.

  There's a deeper issue there, however, which I'm not sure how I should
  raise (i.e., should I file a bug-report about this, that would
  probably go ignored, take the issue upstream where they will just
  snigger, or what): it seems logical that *every* configuration section
  in the gnome-control-center (everything that is handled by the gnome-
  settings-daemon) should have a "DON'T TOUCH" option to mean: request
  that the daemon leave the config exactly as it was.  This is a typical
  use case: I know how to configure the touchpad to behave exactly how I
  want it, using xorg.conf (or HAL FDI files, or whatever) + xinput, but
  because the gnome-settings-daemon insists on updating the config for
  this particular device, I can no longer get the behavior I desire.  If
  there were a "DON'T TOUCH (leave unconfigured)" setting in the
  touchpad preferences, I could just set it there and work with xorg and
  xinput in my own way.  Is it even worth dreaming that Ubuntu or
  upstream Gnome should grant this wish?

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