Bug 294982

Summary:	Dolphin does not work with multitouch-enabled touchpads
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Martin Klapetek <mklapetek>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Martin Klapetek 2012-02-28 09:05:37 UTC

KDE 4.8/master
Qt 4.8/master
utouch 1.1

I have a macbook pro with multitouch touchapd, which is working through canonical's utouch framework. All of KDE apps support (but also qt, gtk etc) the multitouch tapping correctly, except dolphin. 

For example - I have two fingers tap mapped to "right mouse button click", so everywhere through the workspace I click, it's correctly interpreted. In dolphin, the behavior is rather random, usually it interprets it as "middle mouse button click", ie. a new tab opens, but sometimes nothing happens at all.

This seriously limits the way dolphin can be used as for example context menus are inaccessible with the touchpad only.

I'm not sure what other info to provide, but I'm able and willing to provide any debug info you might need, test patches etc.

It's really annoying and I'd like to help get this fixed.

Comment 1 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:19:56 UTC

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

Comment 2 Frank Reininghaus 2013-04-26 12:43:52 UTC

Sorry for the late response. If all KDE apps except Dolphin support utouch, I cannot really believe that special code is required to support it. But OTOH, we don't have any special "disable utouch" code that I am aware of, so there is probably some code required to make it work.

Unfortunately, I neither have a touchpad nor any utouch knowledge. Can you provide a pointer to some KDE code that uses it?

Comment 3 Martin Klapetek 2013-04-26 12:54:07 UTC

This does not apply anymore in Kubuntu 13.04/KDE 4.10. Not sure if Dolphin was updated (it uses its own view classes right? that might have been the cause) or if the utouch was "fixed". Anyhow, it's working now, so I'm ok if you close this bug.

Comment 4 Frank Reininghaus 2013-04-26 13:07:26 UTC

Thanks for the quick reply. Well, Dolphin already had its own view classes in KDE 4.8 (which you originally reported the bug for). I have no idea what fixed it - probably it was nothing in Dolphin itself. Anyway, it's good to know that it works now :-)