Bug 16685

Summary: tap-to-click not enabled in plasma by default
Product: Mageia Reporter: Frank Griffin <ftg>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Nicolas Lécureuil <mageia>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: balcaen.john, marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: task-plasma CVE:
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Description Frank Griffin 2015-09-02 14:50:52 CEST
Just as it says.  First GNOME, now Plasma ?  Since when did tap-to-click become a pariah ?  Why would any touchpad user *not* want this enabled ?

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Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-09-02 21:13:02 CEST
(In reply to Frank Griffin from comment #0)
> Just as it says.  First GNOME, now Plasma ?  Since when did tap-to-click
> become a pariah ?  Why would any touchpad user *not* want this enabled ?
> 

When there are buttons to click with and a pad too easily thinks that it's tapped when it isn't?

I don't care what the default is, though, was just trying to think of a reason to disable "tap-to-click" ;-)

CC: (none) => balcaen.john, lmenut, marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 2 Frank Griffin 2015-09-02 21:34:56 CEST
:-) Well, if there actually are any such touchpad luddites, I'm sure they're in a small minority.

I was just wondering if there was some crusade in the greater Linux community that was pushing for this.  To GNOME and Plasma, you can add GDM and our own installer (gtk3).  The desktops aren't a problem, as you can simply turn it back on (I hope).  

The problem is stuff like the installer and DMs, since it's not configurable there.

With the install in particular, this has happened before, I've reported it, and it's been fixed.  When it breaks, it leads to a barrage of bug reports saying that "MGA doesn't support my touchpad" because virtually every touchpad user expects it to work, and if it doesn't on their first interaction with MGA, they're not going to stick around.
Comment 3 Frank Griffin 2015-11-03 03:15:40 CET
Ping ?
Luc Menut 2015-11-05 08:44:01 CET

CC: lmenut => (none)

Comment 4 Frank Griffin 2016-07-18 00:54:41 CEST
Not Plasma's fault.  Please see bug#18972.  When that workaround is applied, Plasma has tap-to-touch enabled by default.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID