GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 693744
Mouse and touch input devices can't be configured seperately
Last modified: 2013-02-14 12:41:43 UTC
1) Ubuntu 12.10 2) gnome-control-center 3.6.3-0ubuntu11~ubuntu12.10.1 3) I want all build in/connected cursor moving devices (touchpad, mouse, external touchpads etc.) to be configured seperately like it's possible with gpointing-device-settings. The before mentioned package does't work propperly with Ubuntu anymore (changes aren't persistent #489830) and isn't updated anymore so it would be nice to have these features directly in the control center. Please add an option to configure all input mouses/touchpads/etc. seperately. I'm not sure about design guidelines but this could be sorted by tabs for every device that's connected. Also settings for every device should be saved somewhere so when you connect an external device the next time the settings should be restored. 4) On my Lenovo laptop I have a Lenovo trackpad and a touchpad, and I often use an external mouse or an Apple Magic Trackpad. At the moment in Ubuntu it's not possible to configure them all seperately considering the different natures of the mentioned input devices.
Configuring devices of the same class separately is not planned. If you want to configure devices separately, you can use this scripting facility in gnome-settings-daemon: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/plugins/common/input-device-example.sh
Pretty sad and very uncomfortable. Not everyone is into scripting, I wonder how other people deal with this (for example Mac users who want to use their Magic Trackpad properly). So "not planned" means "was considered before and refused to implement" or "never considered and therefore not on the roadmap".
(In reply to comment #2) > So "not planned" means "was considered before and refused to implement" or > "never considered and therefore not on the roadmap". Something that was considered out of scope when the mouse and touchpad panel was redesigned for GNOME 3.6.
But detached from GNOME 3.6 wouldn't that be something to consider? For GNOME 3.10? Later GNOME versions? Or is this just too unimportant to consider it again? So the "Won't fix" is for 3.6 or in general?
(In reply to comment #4) > So the "Won't fix" is for 3.6 or in general? In general. GNOME 3.6 is already out, and "done". We're onto GNOME 3.8 work, and there's no plans to add per-device configuration.