On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Björn Persson <bjorn(a)xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
> > drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Things are not black and white there is a "disable touchpad while
typing"
> >> option which would solve your problem while not making the impression that
> >> something is broken like it is now.
> >
> > Possibly, but there is also the risk of accidentally tapping when you
> > only want to move the pointer but your finger happens to tremble a
> > little. (That's not about Parkinson's disease. Even to perfectly
healthy
> > people it's difficult to hold absolutely still.)
> >
> > Does anyone care to present some evidence showing that this works well
> > for people in general? Note that I'm not against changing this default.
> > I'm against changing it based on nothing but a baseless belief that it
> > won't bother people.
>
> I don't want to change this because I believe it doesn't bother
> people, but because almost every other OS and Linux distribution have
> it enabled by default,
No they don't. Specific drivers for specific touchpads for specific hardware
will have tap-to-click enabled. This is usually because an engineer made the
decision.
They do, I've used openSUSE, Mageia, Ubuntu, Mint, Windows, Mac OS X, etc.
They all enable it by default, and for a good reason, most users I
worked with ask about this, most people use my laptop ask about it.
> and when people try to use Fedora and they
> can't tap to click, they have the impression that this is broken,
> Linux is bad, can't handle a touchpad right.
No, they usually figure out that they need to enable tapping.
> By the way, "Disable touchpad when writing" is enabled by default, so
> this should not affect typing.
No, it's not enabled by default.
It is enabled here, I am using F21 KDE beta
and "Disable touchpad when
writing" is enabled by default.
Tap-to-click is disabled because:
1) it confuses users who aren't used to tap-to-click, or don't use tap-to-click
2) it's especially bad on awful touchpads
3) most PC touchpads are awful (or awfully configured)
Search for "tap-to-click" in the gnome-settings-daemon bugzilla product at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org for more thorough explanations.
In short, the default has already been decided upon.
Cheers
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