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Re: [opensuse-factory] touchpad weirdness after update
  • From: Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:04:16 +0200
  • Message-id: <4C1F7160.9050203@xxxxxx>
Christian Trippe schreef:
On Monday 21 June 2010 15:16:32 C wrote:

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 15:06, Vincent Untz wrote:

Le lundi 21 juin 2010, à 14:59 +0200, C a écrit :

But.. isn't that backwards? You're saying it's a consistent user
experience for a user to come from another OS (be it WIndows, OSX etc)
where touchpad tap is enabled by default... to one where it's now
disabled?. That's not a consistent user experience at all.

I'm not saying we should be consistent with Windows or OS X. I don't
know what the default settings are there. I'm saying that we should be
consistent in our user experience.

And my personal opinion (disabled by default) is based on seeing people
getting confused when something clicks on the screen while they didn't
press a button: it harms more the people who don't expect this behavior
when it is enabled by default than the people who expect it when it is
disabled by default.

Good point... that is actually the reason I went hunting for some way
to control the touchpad tap in 11.2... adding a 1 or 2 second delay
after typing stops to enable the touchpad really helps with this.

Like I said.. I'm on the fence with the default... and as long as
there's a way to re-enable it in the major DEs, we're covered... sadly
the KDE4 solution is rather... poor... unless kcm_touchpad (preferred)
or Synaptiks (second choice) is installed by default with KDE4.

C.


For KDE synaptiks _is_ installed by default on 11.3.
To configure your touchpad:
Systemsettings -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Touchpad

Christian


Offcourse you are right....

I am deeply ashamed!
I did look there, but i had to scroll down (with left button down while
dragging) to get to that section..
All that fuss about nothing, i had simply could have resized that
window, to see all options at once...
Options enough, np at all..
I am glad this works now ;-) My thanx are crushing..


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Enjoy your time around,


Oddball, aka M9.


OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64
Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1
Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 103"

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