https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469262 Summary: Improving the usability of ALPS touchpad (Dell D800) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Usability AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081213 SUSE/1.1.14-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Let me tell you that I don't like laptop touchpads, but occasionally one has to use them. When doing so, I realized that the "feeling" of the touchpad in openSUSE 11.1 is much worse as compared to using it with Windows/XP. As said, I'm no laptop or touchpad guru, but I tried to improve things according to my preferences. Maybe consider some of my preferences in a standard configuration. Maybe this issue is related to Bug 462645 also. My main problem was that I had to "rub the pad like mad" to make the cursor move to where I wanted to have it. The other thing was that I unintendedly triggered clicks and double-clicks, not to talk about unwanted scrolling. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to use the touchpad on a Dell Latitude D800 Actual Results: Usability for beginning users suffers severely (See "Details") Expected Results: Better usability, less mistakes. The changes I made to improve the usability (for me): --- xorg.conf.SAvED 2009-01-07 22:04:31.000000000 +0100 +++ xorg.conf 2009-01-23 20:12:47.000000000 +0100 @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "Mouse[1]" - Option "AccelFactor" "0.01" - Option "BottomEdge" "650" + Option "AccelFactor" "0.05" + Option "BottomEdge" "710" Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1" Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2" Option "CircularScrolling" "1" @@ -83,16 +83,16 @@ Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75" Option "FingerHigh" "15" - Option "FingerLow" "14" + Option "FingerLow" "2" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20" Option "LeftEdge" "120" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.5" - Option "MaxTapMove" "110" - Option "MaxTapTime" "180" + Option "MaxTapMove" "50" + Option "MaxTapTime" "150" Option "MinSpeed" "0.2" Option "Name" "Touchpad" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" - Option "RightEdge" "830" + Option "RightEdge" "900" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "TopEdge" "120" Option "UpDownScrolling" "1" hwinfo: Model: "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" Vendor: 0x0002 Device: 0x0008 "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.