Hi Dne Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:35:36 -0300 Fabricio Rocha <[email protected]> napsal(a):
> I have indeed
> doubts that it is already complete and stable enough for totally
> replacing a package which still works and becoming the only option for
> controlling the PC's touchpad (I don't know other similar utilities).
It's upstream who started this move and abandoned gsynaptics. As we're
getting close to the stable release, the decision needs to be taken
whether we're willing to support something what upstream has abandoned.
And the decision was that we don't want to. Also gsynaptics was quite
far from being stable and for most people gpds provides better
functionality than gsynaptics.
> Anyways, I found out something that made tapping work again, so I hope
> this help in improving gpointer-device-settings. In the Gnome System >
> Preferences > Mouse window, there is a tab called "Touchpad" (which I
> don't remember to have seen before) and enabling the checkbutton "Enable
> mouse clicks with the touchpad" (or something alike, I use a translated
> Gnome and I don't now the English string) made tapping work again. I had
> reverted to the older gsynaptics before trying this, and clicking on the
> Tapping options on its window alone did not have any effect (just like
> happened with the gpointer-device-settings dialog).
Yes this is the real cause of the problems - GNOME now includes some
way to configure touchpad, which do conflict with GPDS. gsynaptics is
not affected by this because it uses different way to load the settings
(autostart script vs. settings-daemon plugin). There is ongoing
discussion in upstream bug about this.
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