Bug 1030700

Summary:	Enable one-finger tapping by default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mustafa Muhammad <mustafa1024m>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-synaptics	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	kevin, peter.hutterer
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Description Mustafa Muhammad 2013-11-15 01:11:37 UTC

Description of problem:
Tapping (tap with one-finger) is not transalted into clicks, this is very disturbing and counter-intuitive, please enable it by default.

I know I can enable it but it is much better to enable it by default for the usability to all the users.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F18, F19, F20, Rawhide

How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2013-11-15 01:32:38 UTC

The default is set by the Synaptics driver itself, kcm_touchpad does not change the systemwide default there. And I must say I agree with the decision by xorg-x11-drv-synaptics upstream. Tapping is a recipe for misclicks, that's what the touchpad buttons are for. (And for buttonless touchpads, as far as I know, the driver does enable tapping by default.) I always find myself accidentally tapping when trying to move the pointer on a touchpad with tapping enabled. It can also trigger misclicks when you accidentally touch the touchpad.

Comment 2 Mustafa Muhammad 2013-11-15 13:17:53 UTC

Can we at least ask users (or developers at the dev mailing list) about their opinion (RFC), I really think most people want it to be enabled by default.

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2013-11-15 14:27:13 UTC

IIRC, we already had a heated discussion about that on the Fedora devel mailing list. There was no consensus either way, and so we kept the upstream default.

IMHO, having tapping enabled by default on a touchpad with buttons would not be intuitive at all.