<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 20:42, Erik Andersen <<a href="mailto:erik.b.andersen@gmail.com">erik.b.andersen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> As far as disabling the touch pad while typing, it will solve the most common reason people turn the touch pad off. At the same time, I think it would be pretty hard physically to use the touch pad and keyboard at the same time and most programs wouldn't require require you to do this anyways. On top of that, this feature could also be turned off by advanced users. So that way, we would (hopefully) have a win-win situation. </blockquote><div> My 0.2 cents worth. I've used (as in "worked with for a long time") at least four different notebooks over the past year or two. I`ve used them with Windows and Ubuntu. In all cases, one of the first things that I did (in Windows) was to disable the touch pad while typing. It`s amazing at how frequently I would touch the pad while typing. Sometimes the cursor would simply move and I would take a few keypresses to note that I was not writing where I meant to. It broke my flow, and was a huge problem for me. One of the things that most distressed me with Ubuntu was that I didn't had as much control over the touchpad as I had with Windows. On at least one case it was something that stopped me from using Ubuntu on a particularly "unsupported" notebook (I think it was a Toshiba but I may be wrong). So, by all means, disable touchpad while typing is a mus; it should be easy to select, and perhaps it could even be the default setting. </div></div>-- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/carribeiro">http://twitter.com/carribeiro</a> blog: <a href="http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com">http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com</a> mail: <a href="mailto:carribeiro@gmail.com">carribeiro@gmail.com</a>