Enable tapping by default

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Nov 18 21:05:01 UTC 2014


drago01 wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Mattias Ellert
> <mattias.ellert at fysast.uu.se> wrote:
>
>> 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.
> 
> This has pretty much nothing to do with reality. So please write sane
> mails when you ask for sanity ;)

It is when you have never used a tap-to-click device and thus are not used 
to the extra-soft touch that it takes to move without tapping. Then 
literally EVERY cursor move you make will trigger an accidental click. I 
have personally experienced that. This is not an exaggeration at all.

        Kevin Kofler



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