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Bug 723770 - Disable touchpad while typing label is misleading
Disable touchpad while typing label is misleading
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Mouse
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Ondrej Holy
Control-Center Maintainers
: 697392 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-02-06 15:27 UTC by Ondrej Holy
Modified: 2015-01-20 14:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
change label (1.27 KB, patch)
2014-02-06 15:28 UTC, Ondrej Holy 		needs-work Details | Review

Description Ondrej Holy 2014-02-06 15:27:31 UTC 
Label "Disable touchpad while typing" is misleading. Movement isn't disabled, but only clicking and scrolling. It has been suggested to change the label to be more descriptive, e.g. "Disable tapping while typing".

It has been reported downstream: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053007
Comment 1 Ondrej Holy 2014-02-06 15:28:24 UTC 
Created attachment 268300 [details] [review]
change label
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2014-02-07 08:49:07 UTC 
Review of attachment 268300 [details] [review]:

I don't really like the new label, and it's also slightly incorrect.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673055#c6 says we inhibit scrolling as well. We use syndaemon's -t option:
       -t     Only disable tapping and scrolling, not mouse movements, in response to keyboard activity.
Comment 3 Ondrej Holy 2014-02-13 14:27:05 UTC 
So, current state isn't correct and either patch isn't correct. However label "Disable tapping and scrolling while typing" is probably really long...
Comment 4 søren hauberg 2015-01-19 08:12:43 UTC 
Why not make the setting actually disable touchpad while typing? At least to me, that would be the preferred behavior.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2015-01-19 14:33:22 UTC 
*** Bug 697392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Ondrej Holy 2015-01-20 14:13:56 UTC 
Also syndaemon doesn't work at all with -t option with some touchpads:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169934

So the default options should be reconsidered also...
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2015-01-20 14:20:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> Also syndaemon doesn't work at all with -t option with some touchpads:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169934
> 
> So the default options should be reconsidered also...

"Disable while typing" is now implemented in libinput, which Wayland and the libinput-based X11 driver will use. And it's always on. See bug 743194.

Closing this as obsolete as the label is gone.