Bug 391551

Summary:	Scrolling with the touchpad to switch desktops is too fast
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	RaitaroH <RaitaroHikami>
Component:	Pager	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, josephj, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.12.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description RaitaroH 2018-03-08 07:23:42 UTC

Ok, so either hover the empty desktop then try to scroll with the touchpad to switch desktops or hover the pager widget. I have to be very careful not to scroll from first dekstop to the 3rd or 4th just by a little, gentle touch.

This is another bug entry in reference of: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388353

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2018-03-08 09:06:35 UTC

I can't reproduce this on my system. These kinds of problems can be device-specific. The Pager currently uses the same wheel delta accumulation logic we use all over Plasma (e.g. also in the Task Manager applet), so it's not a trivial change.

Comment 2 RaitaroH 2018-03-08 19:15:25 UTC

(In reply to Eike Hein from comment #1)
> I can't reproduce this on my system. These kinds of problems can be
> device-specific. The Pager currently uses the same wheel delta accumulation
> logic we use all over Plasma (e.g. also in the Task Manager applet), so it's
> not a trivial change.

Actually I never liked the scroll through things in the task manager. I activated it and tried with my touchpad and... yeah is really fast. I have to move my finger really little to move by one item. If I try more than that I move around wildly. Actually doing a quite nice scroll down is almost fun :)

Also I am not sure if it is a wide problem. It doesn't happen in everything. For example in the System Settings, adding widgets, notification list, changing the volume...

In case it helps here is my laptop: https://github.com/RaitaroH/DELL-Inspiron-Gaming-7567
I only installed the nvidia drivers (proprietary from ppa). 
I do have libinput-gestures BUT if I stop the process the problem is still there so is not it either.

Comment 3 RaitaroH 2018-03-12 04:17:28 UTC

Here is what the developer of the event calendar said:
https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applet-eventcalendar/issues/4#issuecomment-372145550

Maybe it can help. It seems it is a QT bug.

Comment 4 RaitaroH 2018-03-12 04:55:12 UTC

Also this is the fix for gwenview: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388353#c19

Comment 5 Joe 2019-07-16 02:57:05 UTC

This is a long term problem. I still have it in kubuntu 18.04. It scrolls so fast it makes me dizzy as desktops careen across the screen. I would turn it off if I could - without losing scrolling everywhere else.

This is not just an inconvenience/annoyance. It's an accessibility issue as well.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2021-03-10 19:17:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 369426 ***