Karmic touch pad request

[Dean Sas]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 05:15, Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn
> <ubuntu-devel at darkpixel.com> wrote:
>> button didn't work.  Tapping the pad didn't work.  I thought the
>> touchpad buttons were dead.
>>
>> After 5 or 10 minutes, I remembered this post and realized the default setting
>> for tapping is 'off'.  Lame.
>
> It's not easy to set a good default for everyone. This decision
> certainly isn't limited to "tap to click"; there are numerous other
> default settings to consider (hello, PulseAudio), and a vocal minority
> does not necessarily constitute _the_ correct path forward. There is a
> fine line to tread between shipping the upstream default and shipping
> "what users expect" - and of course there's no good way to determine
> what users expect.
>
> One metric that I use is the principle of least surprise. I also
> factor in ease of toggling whatever setting is at stake. The more
> technical/experienced the user, the less pressing it is to deliver a
> non-default setting.

I was very surprised when it stopped working in Karmic. I immediately
thought it was some kind of hardware/xorg bug and went to launchpad to
file a bug about it. Having this turned off makes using a touchpad
much slower to use as I constantly have to twist my wrist or move my
entire hand to click.