Re: Enable tapping by default

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On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:16:26AM +0200, Nikos Roussos wrote:
> 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.

and you have references for "most"?

Cheers,
   Peter

> 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.


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