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[Bug 1498321] [NEW] Touchpad use and multitouch gestures very inconvinient

 

Public bug reported:

The use of the touchpad is a horrible user experience on unity. A few
examples:

- Two finger scrolling is too sensitive. (there is no setting to change the sensitivity of the touchpad).
- Two finger scrolling all the time activates the window switcher (probably because a minor disturbance actually counts as "3 finger tap followed by 3-fingers hold ") instead of just scrolling.
- Two finger scrolling often highlights the content.
- "4 finger swipe left/right to reveal launcher" is actually useful. 
- "4 finger tap to open dash" often activates right-click and moves cursor before dash appears. 
- I tried to learn the 3 finger variations a couple of time, but the never stick. Too complicated, not intuitive at all and they also often collide with each other.

My suggestion, add a touchpad sensitivity setting and revise the
multitouch options.

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Touchpad use and multitouch gestures very inconvinient

Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The use of the touchpad is a horrible user experience on unity. A few
  examples:

  - Two finger scrolling is too sensitive. (there is no setting to change the sensitivity of the touchpad).
  - Two finger scrolling all the time activates the window switcher (probably because a minor disturbance actually counts as "3 finger tap followed by 3-fingers hold ") instead of just scrolling.
  - Two finger scrolling often highlights the content.
  - "4 finger swipe left/right to reveal launcher" is actually useful. 
  - "4 finger tap to open dash" often activates right-click and moves cursor before dash appears. 
  - I tried to learn the 3 finger variations a couple of time, but the never stick. Too complicated, not intuitive at all and they also often collide with each other.

  My suggestion, add a touchpad sensitivity setting and revise the
  multitouch options.

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