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Bug 581035 - Annotation to explain how to re-activate the touchpad
Annotation to explain how to re-activate the touchpad
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 337367
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Mouse
2.26.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-05-01 18:30 UTC by Arnaud B.
Modified: 2010-12-07 18:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26


Description Arnaud B. 2009-05-01 18:30:12 UTC 
I imagine all people doesn't know that the underlined character usually means a keyboard shortcut with <ctrl>.
So, shouldn't there be a annotation in the capplet "mouse", tab "touchpad", that tell "to re-activate the touchpad, hit <clrl>t", in the case someone using his laptop disabled the touchpad "to know what this mean"?

It's not very usefull for most people, but isn't very difficult to do.

Other information:
Comment 1 Chris Jones 2009-07-30 12:12:05 UTC 
This may no longer be necessary as the latest changes in 2.27 appear to have removed the ability to disable touchpads at all.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2010-12-07 18:13:55 UTC 
Actually, we should make sure that the touchpad cannot be disabled if no mice are present. Will add that to bug 337367.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 337367 ***