Bug 1030700 - Enable one-finger tapping by default
Summary: Enable one-finger tapping by default
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Hutterer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-15 01:11 UTC by Mustafa Muhammad
Modified: 2013-11-15 14:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-11-15 01:32:38 UTC
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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.


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