Bug 184336

Summary:	Add Synaptics configuration to KDE System Settings
Product:	[Unmaintained] ksynaptics	Reporter:	Bill Frans <bil_efff>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stefan Kombrink <katakombi>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, mh+kde-bugs, rockonthemoonfm, s.hs, valentyn.pavliuchenko, valorie.zimmerman
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Bill Frans 2009-02-14 20:56:48 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

KDE4 System Settings (systemsettings) is the current storehouse for user level hardware configuration.  There is an application to configure the mouse.  There is not, however, in that same application, a means to configure or control of the "synaptics" touchpad of a laptop.  

I think it'd be an improvement to integrate the synaptics control "syndock" features into the systemsettings configuration to offer a one stop configuration location for mouse settings.  

Proposed Feature(s):
A.  Inside of "Keyboard & Mouse" app.
1.  Add "Touchpad" icon in the "Keyboard & Mouse" System Settings application.
2.  Add the syndock configuration and settings features to the Touchpad configuration.

or 
B.  Create Touchpad application inside System Settings under hardware.
1.  Add the syndock configuration and settings features to the Touchpad configuration.

Comment 1 Marc Haber 2009-11-17 14:04:12 UTC

I would also want to have this feature integrated into KDE. It was there with KDE 3, but ksynaptics was already lost years ago. It's really a shame that one needs to resort to the command line or to a GNOME application to configure this extremely common kind of hardware.

Greetings
Marc

Comment 2 Valentyn Pavliuchenko 2009-12-11 19:00:20 UTC

There is now synaptiks, that is being developed right now. But it still has no systemsettings integration.

Comment 3 Valentyn Pavliuchenko 2010-07-12 11:38:17 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4 Valorie Zimmerman 2012-10-08 08:03:41 UTC

Now synaptiks is in systemsettings, but when trying to use it, I always get the same nonsense error message: "Version error
"The version of the Xinput extension installed on your system is too old. Version 2.0 was found, but at least version 2.0 is required.
"If you want to be able to configure your touchpad, you have to upgrade your system to a recent release of the Xorg display server. This may likely involve a complete upgrade of your system. Please excuse this inconvenience, but there is no way to make touchpad configuration work on systems as old as yours."

Image: http://wstaw.org/m/2012/10/08/plasma-desktopTN2364.png

I have a newly-updated system, by the way. On the other hand: $ xinput --version
xinput version 1.6.0
XI version on server: 2.2

1.6 is the latest provided by Kubuntu in Quantal beta (12.10, using KDE Platform Version 4.9.2)

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2012-10-08 11:41:50 UTC

Valorie, bugs for synaptiks are not tracked at the KDE bug tracker. Please report this issue directly to synaptiks developers via http://synaptiks.lunaryorn.de/

> Now synaptiks is in systemsettings

If synaptiks is installed, it will indeed show up there, but it is not part of the KDE SC. If it was there by default, your distribution added it.

Comment 6 rockonthemoonfm 2012-10-30 11:44:34 UTC

this bug has a duplicate in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189567

after 10 relases this bug is still open

Comment 7 Jekyll Wu 2012-10-30 13:59:04 UTC

ksynaptis has stopped its development for a few years. Close its remaining reports with the agreement from the author. 

As alternative, use synaptiks[1] or kcm_touchpad[2] .

[1] http://synaptiks.lunaryorn.de/
[2] http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=113335