Eric Griffith wrote:
There's a general thought that if you expose a control knob for
it then
people will assume that changing it is a supported action and if it
doesn't work as expected then that's a bug to be fixed because all
configurations are equal and should be equally supported. People used this
mentality to come up with very strange synaptics config files that were
not supported at all, but they would show up anyway screaming about
support.
I just want to turn the touchpad off - as I imagine do many ThinkPad owners
who use the ThinkPad pointer as a alternative to the touchpad.
Surely that could not cause any of these philosophical difficulties?
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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/
eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin