On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:41:01 Stefan Quandt wrote:
i only have one problem.. how am i supposed to enable touchpad tapping?
As I understand it, depite that on major other OSes tapping just works. openSUSE came to the conclusion, that tapping should be off by default.
May be they want to force newbies to learn about KDE/gnome/whatever WM configuration frontends before feeling comfortable with their desktops (pardon for sarkasm).
Here a quote from a comment on another touchpad problem: <cite> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554884
Short version is, touchpad tap was disabled in X to make it consistant with Gnome defaults. KDE does not enable/disable by default instead picking up on whatever X is configured to do. So since touchpad tap is now disabled, KDE picks up on that "new" setting and no more touchpad tap.
You have to install Synaptiks or kcm_touchpad to be able to enable touchpad tap and other touchpad behaviors you're used to with KDE4 in 11.2. </cite> If that would actually work, unfortunately the Qt-based frontends kcm_touchpad and synaptiks both fail to enable tapping on my laptop. A custom X.org conf does the trick. Nonetheless this is sub-optimal as you have to restart for simple configuration changes. This isn't exactly user friendly and the competition seems to do a way better job here.
BTW. What was the rationale for disabling this anyway?