----- Original Message ----- > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Björn Persson <bjorn@rombobjörn.se> wrote: > > drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Things are not black and white there is a "disable touchpad while typing" > >> option which would solve your problem while not making the impression that > >> something is broken like it is now. > > > > Possibly, but there is also the risk of accidentally tapping when you > > only want to move the pointer but your finger happens to tremble a > > little. (That's not about Parkinson's disease. Even to perfectly healthy > > people it's difficult to hold absolutely still.) > > > > Does anyone care to present some evidence showing that this works well > > for people in general? Note that I'm not against changing this default. > > I'm against changing it based on nothing but a baseless belief that it > > won't bother people. > > I don't want to change this because I believe it doesn't bother > people, but because almost every other OS and Linux distribution have > it enabled by default, No they don't. Specific drivers for specific touchpads for specific hardware will have tap-to-click enabled. This is usually because an engineer made the decision. > and when people try to use Fedora and they > can't tap to click, they have the impression that this is broken, > Linux is bad, can't handle a touchpad right. No, they usually figure out that they need to enable tapping. > By the way, "Disable touchpad when writing" is enabled by default, so > this should not affect typing. No, it's not enabled by default. Tap-to-click is disabled because: 1) it confuses users who aren't used to tap-to-click, or don't use tap-to-click 2) it's especially bad on awful touchpads 3) most PC touchpads are awful (or awfully configured) Search for "tap-to-click" in the gnome-settings-daemon bugzilla product at https://bugzilla.gnome.org for more thorough explanations. In short, the default has already been decided upon. Cheers -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
