On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Tomas Radej <tradej(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 09/26/2012 08:51 PM, les wrote:
>
> Please, you can enable this feature if you want it, and if your touchpad
> handles it well, then good for you. Tapping is a "feature", not a
> characteristic of touch pad use, and as such should be accessible to those
> who want it, but not enabled by default. Just my personal point of view.
> Regards, Les H
I agree with this. Unless your touchpad's buttons are broken (like mine, but
that's beside the point), you can move around the system, no problem, and
enable tap-to-click at will.
The question that comes with this is if the switch is easily accessible. In
Gnome it is (albeit it has a funny label - 'Enable mouse clicks with
touchpad' - what's wrong with 'Tap to click'?), but it appeared only
recently in XFCE. I don't know about other environments which we ship,
please submit your experience.
I don't expect much of a consensus to arise around this point, so I suggest
we check if in the main environments, the tap-to-click setting is easily
accessible and user-friendly. This state won't bother people who have
problems with tap-to-click, and won't pose problems for people who want to
have it on. I think that it's safe to assume that if the user installed
Fedora successfully, they realize that to enable clicking with their
touchpad, they need to go to Mouse/Touchpad settings and set it there in a
checkbox.
The problem with your argument is that it can go with both directions.
We can have it enabled by default and in case the user is annoyed by
it he/she can turn it off.
I don't think that continuing this discussion makes much sense. There
are people who want/like it and there are some who do not ... unless
we can detect that (i.e read the users mind) we cannot find a solution
that works for everybody.