People rarely move their fingers perfectly vretical or horizontal, not to mention the hand is already aligned diagonally touching the lower edge of the notebook. Both Microsoft and Apple already thought of that.
Accidental diagonal two-finger scrolling should be restricted the same way it is in Windows and OSX. It detects the main direction of your movement: e.g. 70% vertical and 30% horizontal and ignores that 30%. The system should not completely disable diagonal scrolling, but allow the user setting that threshold: 30% or something else. Mac also ignores two finger movement (in one direction) if the fingers are too apart - should be configured as well. And (very annoying Linux "feature") both OSX and Windows ignore the second finger (e.g. in the corner of the trackpad) if it is not moving. It is very natural to rest your left index finger there ready to press/tap while moving the right one to position the cursor. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876447 Title: Two-finger scrolling scrolls horizontally and vertically simultaneously To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/876447/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
