GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 317407
GNOME needs a program for configuring input devices
Last modified: 2010-12-07 18:43:16 UTC
There should be a way to configure and set up a broader range of input devices than the mouse setup that exists today. I have a need to configure the following input devices: * Apple's Mighty Mouse - detected by the kernel and works ok, but there is no way to configure horizontal scrolling or the extra button. http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/ * ShuttlePro for video editing - detected by the kernel but I need to configure what keyevents to be sent to various programs. http://www.contourdesign.com/shuttlepro/ * Powermate - detected by the kernel, but again there it no GNOME program to setup a configuration. http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/ So, I'am asking for a general purpose program to configure various input devices. I've searched a bit, but can not find any such program. Please let me know if this is interesting or if there is someone working with this already.
Thanks for your bug. I'm not convinced that GNOME should have some options for every kind of devices around since that's not useful for most of users and other can install some specific applications easily if this one is packaged for their distribution
OK - I can agree to that the devices listed is somewhat geeky, but I still think that it should be possible to configure the extra buttons that you find on many mouse types. F.ex. the mouse I using now: "Logitech Click! Optical Mouse" (there is a one extra button on this one).
Created attachment 129952 [details] XFCE mouse configuration dialog
I suggest this to be a bug not an enhancement. Devices in original description are a bit overkill. Lets see some common case: A mouse, and a touchpad. There are thousands of people using notebooks with mouses, and I they choose to use GNOME, they cannot configure sensibility separately. That's becoming pretty annoying since lots of mouses today are laser based and with much bigger resolution. I can configure small sensitivity (treshold) for my mouse, than I can use it, but touchpad become unusable. C'mon guys, it's not that hard. XFCE has already done this. (attachment)
Can somebody change status from unconfirmed to NEW ?
(In reply to comment #4) > I suggest this to be a bug not an enhancement. Devices in original description > are a bit overkill. Lets see some common case: > > A mouse, and a touchpad. > > There are thousands of people using notebooks with mouses, and I they choose to > use GNOME, they cannot configure sensibility separately. That's becoming pretty > annoying since lots of mouses today are laser based and with much bigger > resolution. > > I can configure small sensitivity (treshold) for my mouse, than I can use it, > but touchpad become unusable. What you are saying sounds like that you want to configure multiple devices respectively. If so, it's bug #86895.
*** Bug 574532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 622443 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
For mice and touchpads, we already have UIs. For tablets, a panel is planned. See http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Tablet For other devices, the best bet is to wait until the tablet support lands, which should have support for only showing up when there are tablets available on the system. Adding third-party panels for other input devices (say, joysticks, joypads, etc.) should be fairly straight forward after that. But it won't be done within GNOME itself, so there's no point in leaving this bug opened.