GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 694304
Suggestion: Enable "tap to click" default in GNOME
Last modified: 2015-04-10 15:51:03 UTC
I introduced this bug in fedora, (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912886) and I've seen other distros that use GNOME with this capability enabled by default, but suggested I leave the bug in GNOME Bugzilla. As I write in the fedora bug left as is customary for this ability (tap to click) is enabled by default in other systems (OS X, Windows and other linux distros). This leaves the feeling that something is not working. I suggest that this capability is enabled by default.
I have in mind that this idea was discussed along with other bug 651134 , however, not clear to me its not included as default feature. I hope they can discuss this idea for Gnome 3.10. - Contrary to what I said in the comment above, OS X computers do not necessarily have this feature enabled by default, but consider that Apple has a grip on your hardware and how this is controlled. - It may be an argument of "habit", but if this feature is enabled on other systems (Windows and Linux), there is customary to use (although there are physical buttons) - I'm not expert in user interface design or usability, in the case that this is due to a "particular workflow," When "tap to click", could activate automatically in GDM? thanks
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/tapping.html says: " Tapping is disabled by default, see this commit because: - if you don't know that tapping is a thing (or enabled by default), you get spurious button events that make the desktop feel buggy. - if you do know what tapping is and you want it, you usually know where to enable it, or at least you can search for it. " So the default won't be changed I'm afraid.