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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.
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.
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