Bug 417875

Summary: Improvement: Unify mouse/touchpad configurations
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Frederick Zhang <frederick888>
Component: kcm_mouseAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.18.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Mouse
Pointing Devices
Pointing Devices

Description Frederick Zhang 2020-02-19 14:44:02 UTC 
SUMMARY
As shown in the attached screenshots, there are currently 2 panels in System Settings where I can configure my mouse -- the conventional (xorg?) Mouse panel and Pointing Devices for libinput. There are some duplicated items between these two, e.g. pointer speed, left/right hand, scrolling direction, and for example both pointer speed settings work at the same time and are not synchronised with each other.

Same issue happens to touchpad configuration as well, although I don't use my touchpad very often so it bothers me less.

This is somewhat confusing to users hence I reckon it'd be nice to unify those configurations if possible.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.14.1
Kernel Version: 5.5.4-zen1-1-zen
OS Type: 64-bit
Comment 1 Frederick Zhang 2020-02-19 14:45:03 UTC 
Created attachment 126164 [details]
Mouse
Comment 2 Frederick Zhang 2020-02-19 14:45:35 UTC 
Created attachment 126165 [details]
Pointing Devices
Comment 3 Frederick Zhang 2020-02-19 14:48:41 UTC 
Created attachment 126166 [details]
Pointing Devices
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2020-02-20 23:45:53 UTC 
This happened because you installed the obsolete Pointing Devices KCM. It was meant to be a replacement for the separate Mouse and Touchpad KCMs, but instead the reverse happened: they replaced it! You should just remove the package for the pointing devices KCM.
Comment 5 Frederick Zhang 2020-02-21 01:35:45 UTC 
Ah yup, just uninstalled kcm-pointing-devices and Pointing Devices is now gone. Thanks, Nate!