GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 689128
"Content sticks to fingers" confuses users
Last modified: 2013-06-11 15:32:13 UTC
I encourage you to show ordinary or even relatively technologically savyy people the Mouse Settings panel in GNOME 3.6+ and ask them to tell you what they think "Content sticks to fingers" does. I asked a friend and she thought it sounded like a bad idea. When I asked her to explain more, she thought it meant that everything the pointer touched would get picked up by the pointer and stick with the pointer wherever it went. There's simply no context to understand what the text means, and I'm not aware of anything else in technology that uses similar wording. Although most of the complaints in http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/gnome-control-center-36-available-in.html are about the new Background panel, read the comments about this particular feature--from those who knew what it was and wanted it but had a difficult time figuring out those words represented the feature they wanted.
*** Bug 697391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I never understood what "Content sticks to fingers" means but it sounds nasty and like something I don't want to happen. Cosimo just told me this was the natural scrolling that I was wishing I had enabled.
Yes I agree: it's a bad label. "Natural scrolling" seems more appropriate. That said, there are issues with the current implementation (eg bug 682457). If we can't find a resolution to these issues, I think I would sooner drop the feature until we can do it right.
Created attachment 246507 [details] [review] rename label
Review of attachment 246507 [details] [review]: Can you add a translator comment to that string? Some translators will not be familiar with the concept, so you should mention what it does, and that it comes from OSX (so use the same translation if possible).
Created attachment 246535 [details] [review] rename label Transaltor's comment added.
Committed with a fixed up comment and commit message.
Thanks Ondrej!