On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 08:50:29AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 11:23 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 07:08:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer@who-t.net wrote:
Chris: the previous gsetting was 'default' so if you ever changed it manually to 'areas' in the past (e.g. for debugging something), the change to a different default wouldn't affect you because you already have your own setting already. I strongly suspect that's the case for you, run this to verify: gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method If it says 'areas', you changed it at some point in the past.z
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method 'fingers'
Only now do I grok "areas" and "fingers" in this screenshot as referencing the two settings in the release notes *which uses neither term* so I had no idea what it was referring to.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=10uahu6XOownq7oJS8O2TXg7TvW6Yy1_h
So the description there for "fingers" is what I've always experienced on this laptop with Fedora 25 through 28, and Windows 10. I tap two fingers at the same time to get a contextual menu. Meanwhile the release notes say "keep one finger in contact with the touchpad and tap with another finger" and that does nothing for me. Nothing happens. And yet the release notes say it's the default.
the release notes are inaccurate then. "tapping" has a specific meaning for touchpads [1], a short tap with a finger while *not* actually triggering a physical click. The changed default has no effect on tapping, only on clicking (and that only on clickpads).
Yeah, I noticed that too. The description in Tweak Tool is accurate: it says "Click the touchpad with two fingers for right-click and three fingers for middle-click". Sorry, Chris, I didn't realize you were being confused by the inaccurate description in the release notes.
OTOH, when you (Chris) say "So the description there for "fingers" is what I've always experienced on this laptop with Fedora 25 through 28", that seems odd. It was *definitely* not the default in F25. I don't see how you could have got that setting other than by doing it manually. Peter, is there any other way he could've got that setting?
if the gsettings key is on 'fingers', then I'm pretty sure he set it at some point in the past. Or maybe some lucky stray radiation flipping exactly the right bit ;) There's the off-chance that at some point rawhide defaulted to fingers a few years back when this was added. But that requires more digging time than I'm willing to spend on this right now, sorry. Bastien or Carlos may know.
Just as another piece of information in case you need it: the clickfinger behaviour on the other hand is the libinput default for some touchpads like the apple ones. so some users would've seen clickfinger behaviour on their touchpads even with gnome being on 'default'. Those users too aren't affected by this change because either they accepted the default behaviour or manually switched to 'areas' in the past.
Cheers, Peter