Feature Proposal: Enable two finger touchpad scrolling by default

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Thu Mar 17 14:24:43 UTC 2011


On 03/17/2011 09:54 AM, Bilal Akhtar wrote:
> On 03/17/2011 04:39 PM, Chris Coulson wrote:
>> I've just confirmed on my laptop that edge-scrolling *is* disabled when
>> turning on two-finger scrolling. My touchpad doesn't support two-finger
>> scrolling, so that would be a pretty bad out-of-the-box experience for
>> me (and other people in this situation) if we went ahead and did this.
> 
> Same case here. My touchpad doesn't support multitouch (and two finger
> scrolling). If this change was made default, there should be a fallback
> edge scrolling method for non-supporting touchpads.

I have been assuming responsibility for looking into this change so far,
and if we implement it I would ensure that the default of edge-scrolling
would remain for non-multi-finger non-semi-multitouch devices.

Thanks,

-- Chase



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