Enable tapping by default

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 13:15:33 UTC 2014


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Mattias Ellert
<mattias.ellert at fysast.uu.se> wrote:
> tis 2014-11-18 klockan 00:16 +0200 skrev Nikos Roussos:
>> On 11/18/2014 12:12 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:27:53PM +0300, Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
>> >> Hi, I am testing Fedora 21 beta and -like all previous versions- click
>> >> by tapping is off by default.
>> >> Several bug reports concerning this were closed as NOTABUG, but
>> >> tapping is useful for us (people who use it), I don't think it bothers
>> >> the others that much, and is on by default in most operating systems
>> >> and Linux distributions.
>> >>
>> >> What can we do to make this happen?
>> >
>> > This comes up every couple of versions, so here is the reasoning for
>> > disabled by default:
>> >
>> > * if you don't know that tapping is a thing (or enabled by default), you get
>> >   spurious button events that make the desktop feel buggy.
>> > * if you do know what tapping is and you want it, you usually know where to
>> >   enable it, or at least you can search for it.
>>
>> Well, in practice most users just think it's broken.
>>
>> You forgot one case though.
>>
>> * If you know what tapping is and you don't want it (enabled by
>> default), you know where to go to disable it.
>
> Even if you know that this weird "feature" exists, it will take you
> hours to disable it, since while you are trying to find your way through
> setting and control panels you will get tons and tons of random clicks
> that open random windows that needs to be closed and change random
> settings that you need to reset. And while you try to do this you get
> even more random clicks that open new windows and change other stuff.

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