GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 603103
need interface to set all mouse properties, not just tiny subset
Last modified: 2018-08-17 18:38:12 UTC
I have a trackball, I also have a KVM switch. I can use xinput to set the drag lock I need to make a trackball useful with one hand, but if I switch away from the system and back using the KVM, the settings are lost. I looked at using gpointing-device-settings to deal with this, but it has no interface for specifying drag lock or button mappings (which I also change for convenience). I see many other settings xinput can control, I can't imagine they are all there just for fun. I suspect anyone might want any of the settings tweaked on their mouse.
Created attachment 148570 [details] my current alternative technique Here is the current ridiculous shell script I use in place of a more formal technique for setting mouse properties. (Just in case anyone else finds this bugzilla and wants a work around :-).
This bug also request setting additional mouse properties from the gnome-mouse-properties tool : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/198313 Here is the text that I added for those two bugs: If a user has several mouses wouldn't they potentially want to customize each mouse differently? Questions: 1. Is gnome-mouse-properties still the best place for this enhancement? 2. Is gpointing-device-settings the right place to introduce this enhancement? 3. Or should the two apps be somewhat merged? I'm thinking option 3. User doesn't want to guess which app is appropriate for mouse or pointing device customization.
Here is the other bug I wanted to mention: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140279
GPointingDeviceSettings is not under active development anymore and saw its last non-cosmetic code changes in 2010. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gpointing-device-settings/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.