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Bug 590917 - Checkbox for disabling/enabling of tapping
Checkbox for disabling/enabling of tapping
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GPointingDeviceSettings
Classification: Other
Component: Touchpad
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GPointingDeviceSettings-maint
GPointingDeviceSettings-maint
: 599010 607982 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-06 08:56 UTC by selim ok
Modified: 2010-01-26 10:12 UTC
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Description selim ok 2009-08-06 08:56:02 UTC 
Hi,

it's already possible to disable tapping by setting tapping time and tapping move at shortest level. But it's would be nice, when a checkbox exists for disabling the tapping feature. So that also the unexperienced users may disable the tapping. 

Thanks for the great job.
Comment 1 Hiroyuki Ikezoe 2009-12-05 11:09:17 UTC 
*** Bug 599010 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 mrtheplague+gnomebugs 2009-12-11 02:14:40 UTC 
With the latest gpointing-device-settings, it seems there are 3 options: Touchpad on, Touchpad off, and Touchpad on, but tapping and scrolling off. 

As someone who wishes to have the touchpad on, scrolling on, but tapping off, this is extremely counterintuitive. Right now I have removed gpointing-device-settings and just set all of these with synclient (since the ugly hack in /etc/hal/fdi appears to have quit working too).

Every other touchpad UI that I've worked with has a checkbox for "touchpad on/off", and similar for tapping and scrolling --- independently. The current UI is rather like having a "Scrolling on, scrolling off, Scrolling on but only upwards" option, which just doesn't make much sense.
Comment 3 Hiroyuki Ikezoe 2010-01-25 10:24:01 UTC 
*** Bug 607982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Hiroyuki Ikezoe 2010-01-26 10:12:22 UTC 
Fixed.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gpointing-device-settings/commit/?id=6e7b9ce55d103d279aeb9adbfcb4932d5673903b

I will release next version including this fix on 29th Jan.