On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:59:24PM +0100, Jaroslav Nahorny wrote: > > Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Erik Schilling wrote: > >> Over the time I just got used to hitting the special button... > > > > And that's what that "special button" is for. :-) > > > > 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. > > For speed sake. You don't have to move your fingers. It's like with the > scroll-wheel on a mouse. Why do you need a scroll wheel? You could as > well just point the mouse to the scroll marker on right side of the > window, click LMB and move the mouse. It's doable. Why do you need a > scroll-wheel then. Or use PgUp / PgDown keys on your keyboard. > > Furthermore, why a mouse / touchpad at all? You can use keyboard for > navigation. > > So those are personal preferences. One person prefers scroll-wheel, the > other PgUp / PgDown keys. The thing is, a touchpad is a piece of > hardware. With some features built-in. And we are by default disabling a > feature this device offers out of the box. > > I know it's a matter of preferences. Exactly like the way you mount a > roll of toilet paper on a wall > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation). that page's existence just made my day. thanks :) > I know some people hate this feature (tapping) and some love it. But I > think, if the device have some capability (feature) it shouldn't be > disabled by default. slippery slope. synaptics has a lot of features that we don't enable by default even though the hw has the theoretical capability. examples are clickfinger, corner buttons, circular scrolling. remember that a touchpad is just that, a surface that responds to touch. everything else is done in the driver and there isn't really a limit what you could do based on that capability. tapping is no more built-in than pinch-to-zoom (which we don't even support atm). Cheers, Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
