Public bug reported:
Hello,
as described in LP: #1217166 "two finger scroll" is now the default
behaviour in ubuntu. I agree with the points made there (even though an
auto-detection of the "two finger scroll" would be great), but the
problem is the following paragraph:
"For someone with a laptop old enough that it lacks a two-finger capable
touchpad, opening a settings dialog in order to turn off two-finger
scrolling (aka turn *on* edge scrolling) is probably the least of their
worries. When someone is knowingly trying to run the latest and greatest
OS on hardware than is more than five or six years old, their
expectations are different, are more forgiving."
If the touchpad doesn't support two-finger-scroll, one canNOT change the
two-finger-scroll option. It's simply greyed out. The only way to change
it is via dconf.
This is a very severe bug, as it breaks the ubuntu user experience for
almost all users who don't run an expensive and new laptop. (and the
laptop doesn't need to be five or six years old, a cheap new one is
enough.. )
This affects the current 13.10 beta version of Ubuntu (upgrade from
13.04).
Regards
** Affects: ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: saucy
** Description changed:
Hello,
- as described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-
- settings/+bug/1217166 "two finger scroll" is now the default behaviour
- in ubuntu. I agree with the points made there (even though an auto-
- detection of the "two finger scroll" would be great), but the problem is
- the following paragraph:
+ as described in #1217166 "two finger scroll" is now the default
+ behaviour in ubuntu. I agree with the points made there (even though an
+ auto-detection of the "two finger scroll" would be great), but the
+ problem is the following paragraph:
"For someone with a laptop old enough that it lacks a two-finger capable
touchpad, opening a settings dialog in order to turn off two-finger
scrolling (aka turn *on* edge scrolling) is probably the least of their
worries. When someone is knowingly trying to run the latest and greatest
OS on hardware than is more than five or six years old, their
expectations are different, are more forgiving."
-
- If the touchpad doesn't support two-finger-scroll, one canNOT change the
two-finger-scroll option. It's simply greyed out. The only way to change it is
via dconf.
+ If the touchpad doesn't support two-finger-scroll, one canNOT change the
+ two-finger-scroll option. It's simply greyed out. The only way to change
+ it is via dconf.
This is a very severe bug, as it breaks the ubuntu user experience for
almost all users who don't run an expensive and new laptop. (and the
laptop doesn't need to be five or six years old, a cheap new one is
enough.. )
This affects the current 13.10 beta version of Ubuntu (upgrade from
13.04).
Regards
** Description changed:
Hello,
- as described in #1217166 "two finger scroll" is now the default
+ as described in LP: #1217166 "two finger scroll" is now the default
behaviour in ubuntu. I agree with the points made there (even though an
auto-detection of the "two finger scroll" would be great), but the
problem is the following paragraph:
"For someone with a laptop old enough that it lacks a two-finger capable
touchpad, opening a settings dialog in order to turn off two-finger
scrolling (aka turn *on* edge scrolling) is probably the least of their
worries. When someone is knowingly trying to run the latest and greatest
OS on hardware than is more than five or six years old, their
expectations are different, are more forgiving."
If the touchpad doesn't support two-finger-scroll, one canNOT change the
two-finger-scroll option. It's simply greyed out. The only way to change
it is via dconf.
This is a very severe bug, as it breaks the ubuntu user experience for
almost all users who don't run an expensive and new laptop. (and the
laptop doesn't need to be five or six years old, a cheap new one is
enough.. )
This affects the current 13.10 beta version of Ubuntu (upgrade from
13.04).
Regards
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