Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace
the KDE SC4 plasma widgets pager and tasks (taskbar) have no configuration capability to disable touchpad/mouse scroll events. see upstream bug report for tasks at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198661 submitted here for visibility and possibly to help get some traction on this. comments from upstream bug below. folks, how many votes does it take to get some traction on this? i'll submit the following use case... judy has carpal tunnel syndrome. she uses her laptop to earn a living as well as for pleasure. her laptop dies and she gets a new one with a ***HUGE*** touchpad that has no discernible borders and is very sensitive as well. she loves kubuntu lucid, and is even trying out maverick hoping for better control of the touchpad settings, yet finds the touchpad configuration capabilities lacking. after resorting to asking a friend to help her in writing a shell script to set the touchpad parameters to the best she can including syndaemon to disable the touchpad while typing, she still finds it quite difficult and extremely painful to type while trying to keep her palms and thumbs off the touchpad and still gets undesired movement and scroll events. she adores the ability to disable the touchpad scroll from switching desktops by using the mouse actions in the plasma workspace/desktop settings. she finds it quite hard to accept that the same configuration capabilities cannot be easily added to the pager and tasks widgets which still give her considerable annoyance, pain and irritation as well as lost productivity resulting in some less than pleasant chats with her boss. can someone help judy solve these issues? she claims she'll do herself in before going back to windoze ;) thanks, cheers ** Affects: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: accessibility amd64 i386 kde-base-workspace lucid maverick pager tasks -- unable to disable scroll events in pager and taskbar widgets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/648551 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
