Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (485 mails)

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/21/2010 11:36 AM, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> > It is not just a matter of getting confused. If you capacitance is wrong,
> > and mine is, having tapping enabled can cause damage to the system. On a
> > Netbook with Fedora 12 installed, the random clicks caused by just getting
> > near the touchpad completely destroyed the desktop even though I was as
> > careful as could be. The annoyance of not being able to tap is minor
> > compared with the damage that random, unintended clicking can cause.
> Still, broken touchpad drivers should be the minority of cases for which 
> kcm_touchpad or synaptiks can be used to turn the feature off simply. Forcing 
> this on all others just because of some broken touchpads is not the solution.

It isn't a matter of broken drivers, it is "broken" users that cannot use
tapping under any circumstances due to their physical characteristics.

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