112

Here's an idea that I would love to see make it's way into KDE.

Under the Mouse/Keyboard section, I would love to see a "scroll style for synaptics touchpads" configuration option. I don't think that this would be too hard to implement, but I might be wrong.

Anyway, I got this idea from a spinoff version of Arch that I was trying out called Charka Project and they had some great stuff in their forums about initial configuration. This is where I found out about the option for two finger scrolling and circular scrolling and the "zones" of your touchpad. You can read up on the xorg.conf syntax for these things here. After i was done playing with the new distro (i'm sure a lot of you out there do this ) I went back to my sidux install and used the same instructions to get that working on my Debian box. So I don't think that this is distro specific, just maybe X11 version specific?

Anyways, I thought that this would be something really handy to get introduced into KDE. Having a GUI tool for this would probably make some people that don't know their Dell/HP/Lenovo/Whoever could do that, would love that feature, and I'm sure it's a feature that Apple users probably miss when useing linux on a macbook.

Just an idea! Please let me know if this is a rediculous request, or if there is a tool for KDE 3 or 4 that does this already.

Yes, good idea. I also learned some touchpad tricks via the Arch wiki. And gsynaptics works fine as well. KDE could surely use a decent configurator for touchpads, tablets, multi button mice etc. It is kind of archaic to still need to edit xorg.conf in such a modern DE.

there should also be a way to configure the speed of the device.

I would add calibration and edge configuration to that.

It would be really useful, i really miss a way to configure my touchpad! Gnome already has this option so i'm sure it could be implemented in a de

Yes I noticed with the Kubuntu Alpha 9.10 that they have the 2 finger scroll and at first they had the normal scroll area turned off as well which I though was a good idea since the 2 finger scroll worked so well and it gave you more touch-pad space.

I love this idea... so do lots of people before you... lets see:
viewtopic.php?f=83&t=39236
viewtopic.php?f=91&t=62026
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10679
viewtopic.php?f=83&t=47538

Hopefully we'll see some rumour fromt the devs soon

Curious but does this work on all touchpads? Or only special ones that support multi-touch?

Either way, I've got this lovely designated area on my touchpad for scrolling which at the moment does nothing. +1 from me for this idea!

distros currently handle this differently. On ubuntu I had to configure through hal; arch xf86.conf

I have mine setup for two finger vertical scrolling and edge zone horizontal scrolling; two finger tap to right-click. Would not be without it.

One problem is that not all "things" can be configured together. A separate program and configuration is required for example to disable tapping while typiing. A control panel that brought all this stuff together would be a real configurability plus.

I voted yes for this idea. I just finished a thread on the Ubuntu forums about this. Someone helped me set horizontal scroll manually with xinput and make a startup script for it. I would also love to see a GUI option.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1217386

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kc ... ent=113335
There is new touchpad configuration utility for kde4

mishaaq wrote:http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kcm_touchpad?content=113335
There is new touchpad configuration utility for kde4

This works really great. Thank you.

Should be added to KDE by default