[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 105297] Enable circular scrolling

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105297

Bug ID: 105297
Summary: Enable circular scrolling
Product: Wayland
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: libinput
Assignee: wayland-***@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: ***@gmail.com

Created attachment 137699
--> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=137699&action=edit
Circular scrolling not working / feature request?

Synaptics allows for circular scrolling, which means that instead of using two
fingers in an up and down movement for scorlling, you can use the edge of your
touchpad and one finger to scroll through documents using a circular movement.

I have not found a way to get this to work with libinput. That's why I'm still
using synaptics driver (which on the other hand does not work under Wayland,
which also means I'm stuck with X11).

The option appears, when synaptics is installed in KDE (see attachment). In
Gnome, GSynaptics can be used to enable circular scrolling.

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Peter Hutterer <***@who-t.net> changed:

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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Peter Hutterer <***@who-t.net> ---
circular scrolling is currently not implemented in libinput, so there's no
option for it. And tbh, I don't really have any plans of implementing it. It's
a niche feature, makes the touchpad handling code even more complicated and
it's not overly reliable, at least not on all devices. sorry.

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David <***@gmail.com> changed:

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Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED

--- Comment #2 from David <***@gmail.com> ---
You might want to rethink your decision. Maybe circular scrolling is a niche
feature in western countries, but not in Asia.
Panasonic equips almost all their notebooks with a circular touchpad, like
their most recent let's note sv7 series. Without circular scrolling this
touchpad becomes almost unusable because of its small size. In Japan,
Panasonic's market share is quite high, especially at universities. And Linux
is especially used in the academe.

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Peter Hutterer <***@who-t.net> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Peter Hutterer <***@who-t.net> ---
Right, please move this to a gitlab issue, thanks. libinput has since moved
there: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/issues