On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:44:18PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 28 May 2010, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> > >> Was this in GNOME? > >> > >> Does System->Preferences->Mouse have a touchpad tab? do it have tapping off? > > > > Bingo! Yup, that turns a totally useless piece-of-crap touchpad into a > > perfectly cromulent one! > > > > Too bad that the default behavior made it act so horribly bad. > > > > I've cc'ed Peter, but I think thats the GNOME default behaviour, which > might make sense for older style touchpads, but maybe not for these newer > the touchpad is a button type. Default behaviour is tapping on for no-button touchpads (like the ones on the apples) and tapping off for everything else. <insert flamewar here> If you're suggesting to change the defaults, I think you're best off just filing a GNOME bug - the number of multi-finger tap-capable touchpads has increased enough in the last years that this default is worth rethinking. For the rest - please leave the touchpad in touchpad mode, because while the emulation may look nice if you like tapping, it removes a lot of the other configuration features that the driver can otherwise provide (edge scrolling, multifinger scrolling, clickfinger, to name just a few). Cheers, Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
