Bug#542104: gnome-mouse-properties: missing Touchpad tab

[Anthony Bourguignon]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:53:20 +0200, Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 22:30 +0200, Anthony Bourguignon wrote:
>> I've got a problem with gnome-mouse-properties. I've recently switch
>> to unstable in order to get more recent packages (especially xorg).
>> As the xorg.conf file is now deprecated, I deleted it.
>> 
>> Just after the restart, tap and scrolling was not active anymore on my
>> touchpad. I show on many sites that a new tab was present in
>> gnome-mouse-properties, designed to configure a touchpad. But nothing
>> on my sid.
>> 
>> Did I miss something or is it a "feature"?
> 
> That's only available in Ubuntu...
> 
> Thankfully the patches have since been cleaned up and applied upstream
> and will be part of 2.28.
> 
> For now, you need to configure this manually with HAL, there should be
> documentation and examples available with the synaptics package.

And also available in Fedora ;) .

But thank you for the tip. The example file is available in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/ .

I think we can close this bug so.