[Bug 648551] [NEW] unable to disable scroll events in pager and taskbar widgets

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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace

the KDE SC4 plasma widgets pager and tasks (taskbar) have no
configuration capability to disable touchpad/mouse scroll events.  see
upstream bug report for tasks at
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198661

submitted here for visibility and possibly to help get some traction on
this.

comments from upstream bug below.
folks,
how many votes does it take to get some traction on this?  i'll submit the following use case...

judy has carpal tunnel syndrome.  she uses her laptop to earn a living
as well as for pleasure.  her laptop dies and she gets a new one with a
***HUGE*** touchpad that has no discernible borders and is very
sensitive as well.

she loves kubuntu lucid, and is even trying out maverick hoping for
better control of the touchpad settings, yet finds the touchpad
configuration capabilities lacking.

after resorting to asking a friend to help her in writing a shell script
to set the touchpad parameters to the best she can including syndaemon
to disable the touchpad while typing, she still finds it quite difficult
and extremely painful to type while trying to keep her palms and thumbs
off the touchpad and still gets undesired movement and scroll events.

she adores the ability to disable the touchpad scroll from switching
desktops by using the mouse actions in the plasma workspace/desktop
settings.

she finds it quite hard to accept that the same configuration
capabilities cannot be easily added to the pager and tasks widgets which
still give her considerable annoyance, pain and irritation as well as
lost productivity resulting in some less than pleasant chats with her
boss.

can someone help judy solve these issues?  she claims she'll do herself in before going back to windoze ;)
thanks,
cheers

** Affects: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: accessibility amd64 i386 kde-base-workspace lucid maverick pager tasks

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unable to disable scroll events in pager and taskbar widgets
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/648551
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