Bug 186729 - give ability to disable scrolling in task manager
Summary: give ability to disable scrolling in task manager
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 198661
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: widget-taskbar (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
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Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2009-03-10 08:22 UTC by Alassane
Modified: 2010-08-11 08:07 UTC (History)
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Description Alassane 2009-03-10 08:22:52 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

When using a laptop with it's trackpad, it's fairly easy to do an unwanted scroll. I don't know if I'm making any sense. What I mean is that when I click on a application to focus on it and I try to move the mouse, I often make several other applications to focus/unfocus when I'm on the edge of my trackpad (happens roughly 70% of the time). It's quite irritating, and I have to resolve using the alt+tab key short cut to work around it.

It'd be ideal to offer an option to disable this behaviour. When using a normal mouse I'm aware that this could be a good idea to have this feature around, but with a laptop it renders the task manager quite unusable. 

Thanks for all of your work
Comment 1 Henrik Pauli 2010-02-08 22:47:45 UTC
This would be really great to have...  I often hit the edgescroll accidentally, and even more often I hit it on purpose but forget about the position of the mouse cursor (which for some reason barely ever happens with a mouse).  Would love to be able to disable this.
Comment 2 Alassane 2010-02-08 23:07:50 UTC
Thanks I was feeling lonely, here. I completely removed the task manager from my desktop now, I couldn't stand it anyway. There is still the issue when scrolling with the mouse hover over the desktop now. I wonder why that doesn't attract more attention.
Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-02-08 23:21:57 UTC
"There is still the issue when scrolling with the mouse hover over the desktop now."

that's addressed in 4.4 with the mouse actions; this has become a plugin that can be associated with scroll wheeling. you can change that association in the configuration for the given Activity to pretty much anything you want.
Comment 4 Alassane 2010-02-09 05:04:27 UTC
Ho thanks for the tip, I never noticed. And thanks for your work, I'll help as much as I can by tracking bugs
Comment 5 ietc 2010-08-11 07:15:09 UTC
Ahoy there.  I believe this bug is a duplicate of Bug 198661 , which has a bit more data and commentary.  Would the Powers That Be like to close this report as such?
Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-08-11 08:07:19 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198661 ***