GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 769551
Edge scroll doesn't work anymore and two finger scroll always stay enabled
Last modified: 2016-08-10 09:39:53 UTC
Hello, Edge scroll doesn't work anymore in Gnome/Mutter 3.20 (Fedora 24) and two finger scroll always stay enabled. I first thought that it was a libinput bug but Peter Hutterer, the libinput dev, showed me that my problem is due to a Mutter bug. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97090 It seem that the bug is already fixed in Mutter but hadn't been backported for now. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769276#c18 It will be great if the fix could be backported because edge scroll is, for a lot of people, an important part of user experience with a laptop and right now it's not available for Gnome 3.20 users. Thanks !
The patches from bug 768245 require changes in gsettings-desktop-schemas, which means at least gnome-control-center would need to be updated in lock-step, or users will get crashes of either gnome-shell or Settings. I don't think this is acceptable in a stable release, not to mention that the gnome-control-center changes would require a UI freeze exception (a week before the UI freeze for the *next* release starts). So I'm sorry, but the backport you are asking for is not appropriate for a stable release for the reasons outlined above, and won't happen.
Well thank you Florian for taking time for looking at this. It's much appreciated. But if I understand correctly that mean that for the whole lifespan of Fedora 24 and the whole lifespan of the distros based on Gnome 3.20 there won't be any Edge scroll feature available ?
(In reply to jeremy9856 from comment #2) > But if I understand correctly that mean that for the whole > lifespan of Fedora 24 and the whole lifespan of the distros based on Gnome > 3.20 there won't be any Edge scroll feature available ? It means that edge-scrolling won't be available in 3.20 if two-finger scrolling is supported, yes. (Technically two-finger scrolling is available for the entire lifespan of Fedora 24, as Fedora 23 is still supported until Fedora 25 comes out)
It's really annoying but I guess I, and all other people that used this feature, don't really have choice on Gnome 3.20. Anyway thanks for add it back to Gnome 3.22 and if you find a way to add it back to Gnome 3.20, like a gsetting or something simple, it will be great !