https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554884
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554884#c23
--- Comment #23 from Clayton smaug42 2010-09-03 14:52:23 UTC ---
openSUSE/KDE4/Gnome has the ability to enable touch tap in the
config settings. The enable/disable setting is there in a default openSUSE
install for at least Gnome and KDE4.
The issue isn't that you can re-enable it, it's that it's disabled in the first
place.
People coming to openSUSE from... say... Ubuntu... install and expect a similar
experience. A default Gnome install from Ubuntu has touch tap enabled (or is
has on every default 10.04 install I've done lately)... the user then installs
openSUSE.. no touch tap, and they are either confused (as a new user) or
annoyed. They expect touch tap to "just work"... not something they have to
configure. I've had to explain countless times now to new-to-Linux users that
the OS isn't broken, and yes their touchpad works correctly in Linux, they just
need to enable it.
I don't care which we have since I know how to enable/disable it, but I do
expect a consistent experience compared to other equivalent distros and OSes...
and we're not providing that... I think that's the point here. People don't
expect to have to enable what is standard functionality on other desktops/OSes
(just like they don't expect to have to configure something like a scroll wheel
on a mouse).
We do a good job in general in providing a nice smooth user experience with
defaults etc, but this touch-tap thing is one that many users seem to trip over
(at least those I deal with when I provide support for openSUSE installs seem
to get trapped by this setting.).
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