On Monday 21 June 2010 17:56:19 Vincent Untz wrote:
Le lundi 21 juin 2010, à 17:07 +0200, Sascha Peilicke a écrit :
BTW. What was the rationale for disabling this anyway?
See my answer from earlier today: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-06/msg00278.html
Quoting: =========== 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. =========== So people get confused when tapping on a touchpad creates a mouse click then? It does harm as this was the default for a long time and still is for the other distros out there. Also this creates other issues, like that <CTRL>+<Tap> to follow browser tabs don't work anymore. So this could be called a regression. There's a simple option for syndaemon that temporarily disables the touchpad while typing, isn't that actually what you want?
Sure, trying to make things simpler / more intuitive for new users is a good intend, but breaking the touchpad is not. Even less if that choice is only based on a sole decision. -- Sascha Peilicke http://saschpe.wordpress.com