Karmic touch pad request

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On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:15 PM, 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.

Sure there is. Go around and test to see if other laptops are shipped
with tap-to-click enabled by default. I bet you will find every single
laptop sold in stores today to have tap-to-click enabled by default.
This is a huge break from an industry standard, and I have heard no
compelling reason for changing it. It needs to be changed back.