Public bug reported:

When gnome-control-center / "Mouse and Touchpad" is used on a Desktop,
the "Touchpad" tab is not displayed (only the "Mouse" one shows). This
made complete sense until recently (Desktops normally don't have a
Touchpad).

However, with new wireless/wired touchpads (like Apple Magic Trackpad,
Logitech Wireless Touchpad, new keyboards with embedded touchpads, etc),
actively supported by Kernel, this is not the case anymore.

If a touchpad is detected, even on a Desktop, wired or wireless, the
"Touchpad" tab on g-c-c / "Mouse and Touchpad" should be displayed.

Moreover, the touchpad settings should be expanded and improved. These
devices come with WIndows drivers and software that allows for
2/3/4-fingers gestures, speed/sensitivity, corners-actions, inertia
settings. On Ubuntu (and Arch and other distros), people came up with
udev and keymap based workarounds. But it would make sense to have it in
a GUI for the ordinary users. gnome-control-center / "Mouse and
Touchpad" seems to be the correct place.

I have already discussed this in Ubuntuforums
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12128572#post12128572) and
Brainstorm (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29977/). In both cases I
was advised to post this is a bug.

Regards,
Effenberg

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  No GUI on gnome-control-center to config a Touchpad on a Desktop

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