On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ----- 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. They do, I've used openSUSE, Mageia, Ubuntu, Mint, Windows, Mac OS X, etc. They all enable it by default, and for a good reason, most users I worked with ask about this, most people use my laptop ask about it. > >> 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. It is enabled here, I am using F21 KDE beta and "Disable touchpad when writing" is 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
