I wrote:
If the touchpad has physical buttons (or physically-drawn
"virtual
buttons"), why do users even expect tapping to produce a click? The finger
area is for moving, the buttons are for clicking. The only case in which
tapping makes sense is if the touchpad has NO buttons at all (but then how
do you right-click? So I don't expect this to be a common case, except
maybe in Apple's one-button land).
PS: And IIRC, the synaptics driver actually has a quirks list of known
buttonless touchpads and enables tapping for those, so that case is already
handled.
Kevin Kofler