Enable tapping by default

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Nov 18 21:23:59 UTC 2014


I wrote:
> If the touchpad has physical buttons (or physically-drawn "virtual
> buttons"), why do users even expect tapping to produce a click? The finger
> area is for moving, the buttons are for clicking. The only case in which
> tapping makes sense is if the touchpad has NO buttons at all (but then how
> do you right-click? So I don't expect this to be a common case, except
> maybe in Apple's one-button land).

PS: And IIRC, the synaptics driver actually has a quirks list of known 
buttonless touchpads and enables tapping for those, so that case is already 
handled.

        Kevin Kofler



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