Hi. I don't know if this is a problem with Ubuntu packages, or if it is in KDE, but it seems when I upgraded I am missing the touchpad KCM. I have the package installed for the KCM, but it does not appear under "input devices" in systemsettings, or under "kcmshell4 --list"

Is this a bug?

The Touchpad KCM is a 3rd party module, which is only available on kde-look.org I believe. You may wish to ensure that it's package is installed, otherwise look at the bottom of the System Settings window ( where it may be found in the "Lost and Found" category )

I get the KCM in the lost&found of systemsettings. You might want to use the searchbar in the top right of systemsettings to look for it

This issue is caused by the out of date field in the *.desktop file of the KCM.

Simply updating the X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category key to "input-actions" should add it to the Input Actions category ( hint for distribution packagers / upstream developer )

I don't see it in the lost and found section...

bcooksley? how do I "update the X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category key to "input-actions""?

would that make it appear in kcmshell4 --list as well?

If the Touchpad KCM does not appear in the output of "kcmshell4 --list" then it appears to have been uninstalled from your system. If it hasn't, try running "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental"

Thanks.

I tried uninstalling then reinstalling the kcm touchpad package, and then running the command you gave me. kcmshell4 --list | grep touch still returns nothing.

It seems to be a packaging issue?

To make the touchpad kcm appear where you need it you must

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sudo kate /usr/share/kde4/services/touchpad.desktop

and set X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=input-devices

Had to find that out the hard way after forgetting to remove the KDE beta repository and updating to 4.5 After painfully reverting back to 4.4 i found that systemsettings was missing some entries. I am sharing this with you in case anyone else happens to stumble into the same problem, since google searches did nothing to help me so i had to figure it out myself.

And one last thing, speaking of kcm, what is being changed about the printer configuration settings, because the desktop entry in systemsettings in kubuntu is no longer functional - it opens to display an error message , stating that "...The Factory does not support creating components of the specified type"

Since i can't remove this post placeholder which was aimed at a post which is already removed/transfered, i'l use this to mention that the printer configuration issue has been filed as a bug in kubuntu ppa beta :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/591980
In short, the kcm module tries to import cupsutils.ppds but that isn't installed, or packaged for ubuntu (yet).

Edit: just took another look at the feature plan for 4.5 and realized i have forgotten about the changes that are planned for printer-config kcm, so that explains a lot.