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[Hardy Feature Request] Option to disable touchpad in Mouse Preferences -> Touchpad

Bug #184913 reported by Jose De la Rosa
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Bug Description

Would like to have the ability to disable touchpad altogether in System -> Mouse Preferences -> Touchpad. Need to ask user to confirm before disabling. This option is already in gsynaptics (Universe), but would be nice to have this option supported in Main repository.

Jose De la Rosa (jose-de-la-rosa)
Changed in dell:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote :

Setting gnome-control-center as affected, since this is about the UI functionality.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your report, upstream is working on having this included, the related bug is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154029 ; there's also a screenshot showing the patch here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=95897&action=view

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Should this upstream work not make it in time, we have our own trivial patch which I'll upload to Ubuntu this week to provide the functionality in case.

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Jose De la Rosa (jose-de-la-rosa) wrote :

Looking forward to patch. Will scrolling functionality be added at the same time? I still can't scroll with Hardy Alpha 4.

Changed in dell:
importance: Low → Medium
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Jose De la Rosa (jose-de-la-rosa) wrote :

I can now scroll with latest Hardy update. Touchpad configuration tab is back, but still no option to disable it.

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Jose De la Rosa (jose-de-la-rosa) wrote :

Stuff seems to be changing daily: I can't scroll anymore (and the touchpad configuration tab is gone) with 2/7/08 daily live image.

Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)
Changed in dell:
assignee: nobody → keybuk
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

The X server input drivers are in flux at the moment, it will stabilise before Beta, have no fear :-)

What's happening is that your touchpad is being handled by the correct touchpad driver when it works, but a generic mouse driver when it doesn't.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Option to disable touchpad has been uploaded to Hardy

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Jose De la Rosa (jose-de-la-rosa) wrote :

Didn't see this option in Hardy Alpha 5. Where will it be? Under System -> Mouse Preferences?

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote : Re: [Bug 184913] Re: [Hardy Feature Request] Option to disabletouchpad in Mouse Preferences -> Touchpad

Jose,

I'm not positive on this, but you may need to have the synaptics section
to your xorg.conf manually added for this tab to show up. Since
input-hotplug isn't finished, there is no other way for it to know.
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:27 +0000, Jose De la Rosa wrote:

> Didn't see this option in Hardy Alpha 5. Where will it be? Under System
> -> Mouse Preferences?
>

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Jose De la Rosa (jose-de-la-rosa)
Changed in dell:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
Timothy R. Chavez (timrchavez)
Changed in somerville:
assignee: nobody → Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Released
no longer affects: dell
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Timothy R. Chavez (timrchavez) wrote :

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306080

no longer affects: somerville
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