Hello The problem is that, currently, tapping is being disabled when a physical left button is available. This doesn't make much sense since a lot of users (like me) use tapping even when the phisical button is available. You can also see a lot of bug reports downstream related with tapping not working for a lot of users: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236983 https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47149 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/320585 The attached patch was taken from ubuntu and works fine under Gentoo. Thanks a lot :-)
Created attachment 23382 [details] [review] 104_always_enable_tapping.patch
This default was chosen deliberately for the 1.0 release. If distributions want to have a different default then that's fine but we're not going to change the defaults upstream (we've done that too often in the 0.15 releases). There's a split between those who like tapping and those who hate it, so no matter what default is picked, some users will want to change it. The correct solution is not to change the upstream defaults but to have a tool that allows per-user configuration. Note that the defaults can simply be changed by merging the TapButton1/2/3 key in your fdi files, so distributions can do that without having to patch the source. Sorry, closing as NOTABUG.
Well, I don't know any user that hates tapping, but as there are a lot of people... :-/
---quote--- The correctsolution is not to change the upstream defaults but to have a tool that allows per-user configuration. ---end of quote--- Is there any?
> Is there any? well, there's synclient and gsynaptics. synclient supports device properties in the upcoming 1.1 release so that's a real solution (no SHM needed anymore). gsynaptics hopefully catches up soon.
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