According to bug #496770 gsynaptics is not maintained and not fixable. Apparently part of the functionality of gsynaptics has been subsumed into the mouse settings applet. Which does apparently seem to work and is maintained. Part of the problem of having gsynaptics in the distribution is that many folks are used to using it to set their touchpad properties, except they're getting frustrated because it no longer works and they are not aware it's been superceded by a new preferences applet. It better not to delude them with false expectations.
I disagree. For me, gsynaptics does what I need and gpointing-device-settings does not. I am running F11 fully updated on a ThinkPad T42 with a Synaptics touchpad. When I installed F11, I installed gsynaptics. I was able to disable my touchpad and the setting stayed through a reboot. Later through a F11 update, gsynaptics was superceded by gpointing-device-settings. Although I could disable my touchpad with gpointing-device-settings, this setting did not stick through a reboot. The only way I could fix this was by uninstalling gpointing-device-settings, then use the following command to install gsynaptics... rpm -Uvh --oldpackage ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/Packages/gsynaptics-0.9.16-1.fc11.i586.rpm Then exclude gpointing* and gsynaptics* in /etc/yum.conf so that gsynaptics did not get replaced by gpointing-device-settings. I hope that gsynaptics continues to be available.
(In reply to comment #1) > I am running F11 fully updated on a ThinkPad T42 with a Synaptics touchpad. > When I installed F11, I installed gsynaptics. I was able to disable my > touchpad and the setting stayed through a reboot. Later through a F11 update, > gsynaptics was superceded by gpointing-device-settings. Although I could > disable my touchpad with gpointing-device-settings, this setting did not stick > through a reboot. this should be fixed in gpointing-device-settings then instead of having gsynaptics hang around.
Matching gpointing-device-settings bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528485
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Moving to F-13 so that bugzapper doesn't close on us. Andreas - are you alright with removing this package? It's dead upstream, the last commit to it was by me February 2009 and we have to carry patches just to make it build. It's been replaced by gp-d-s. Let me know either way, otherwise I'll remove it in two weeks from now.
Uhh. I thought we already decided to kill it. If you wanna do it, go ahead. :)
done, all killed and rel-eng ticket is submitted. I can't seem to retire it in FAS though, possibly because I'm not the owner. Please go to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife and do step 5. Once that's done, you can close the bug.
rel-eng ticket is resolved and gsynaptics is blocked for F-14. I saw the retired messages go through from pkgdb, so gsynaptics is now truly dead.