Interesting request, and I see it was accepted in Karmic...
I have been always using GNU/Linux on a laptop, and I now I am writing from my 
second one ever since. So it's been about five years on two different laptops 
with (synaptics) touchpads, with various distros (mostily Ubuntu), and always 
using scrollwheel workspace changing (in KDE, Gnome, Xfce and e17). I have 
never experienced any annoyance about that, and I use the touchpad very often. 
I have never had the feeling my touchpad was too sesitive or anything. I have 
to drag my finger through the whole lenght of my right-side-scroller to change 
through more than one workspace in a single shot. And, considering the fact I 
almost never scroll through the whole lenght, I have never had problems with 
that. Actually, I liked the feature very much. And I found it very frustrating 
to have lost it with Karmic. But I can understand that some touchpads are maybe 
more sensitive than any touchpad I have ever used with Linux.
I solved the issue for myself after about an hour of searching through various 
options around Gnome and CCSM. And it was not really fun...

It really is a minor issue, I don't deny that, but it was the other way, too. 
So, what I was thinking about. They solved this One Hundred Paper Cuts request, 
for the happiness of a part of the user base. But, will this now cause an 
opposite request for Ubuntu 10.4 (or whatever will be the release day)? I can 
see on various forums that there is a respective other part of the user base, 
that liked that issue, even with touchpads.
No matter what is the default setting, the best solution would be a more 
obvious and easy to find way to enable/disable that feature. Should I write 
about that on Brainstorm?

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Changing workspaces via scrollwheel on desktop is problematic, especially when 
using touchpad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147230
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