Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.35-rc0

[Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:44:18PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 28 May 2010, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>
> >> Was this in GNOME?
> >>
> >> Does System->Preferences->Mouse have a touchpad tab? do it have tapping off?
> >
> > Bingo! Yup, that turns a totally useless piece-of-crap touchpad into a
> > perfectly cromulent one!
> >
> > Too bad that the default behavior made it act so horribly bad.
> >
> 
> I've cc'ed Peter, but I think thats the GNOME default behaviour, which
> might make sense for older style touchpads, but maybe not for these newer
> the touchpad is a button type.

Default behaviour is tapping on for no-button touchpads (like the ones on
the apples) and tapping off for everything else. <insert flamewar here>
If you're suggesting to change the defaults, I think you're best off just
filing a GNOME bug - the number of multi-finger tap-capable touchpads has
increased enough in the last years that this default is worth rethinking.

For the rest - please leave the touchpad in touchpad mode, because while the
emulation may look nice if you like tapping, it removes a lot of the other
configuration features that the driver can otherwise provide (edge
scrolling, multifinger scrolling, clickfinger, to name just a few).

Cheers,
  Peter