On Monday 21 June 2010 19:00:19 Larry Finger wrote:
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.
But it remains a small minority. For example, we also shouldn't enforce high- contrast black-n-white desktop themes because some users are visually impaired. However they have the choice to use such a theme if they want to. Disabling a feature that can only be re-enabled by fiddling with either HAL, x.org.conf and setting up a special daemon is madness (see http://en.opensuse.org/Synaptics_Touchpad for what I mean). -- Sascha Peilicke http://saschpe.wordpress.com