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

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Date:	Fri, 28 May 2010 07:28:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...-t.net>
cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Florian Ragwitz <rafl@...ian.org>,
	Arjan Opmeer <arjan@...eer.net>,
	Eric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.35-rc0

On Fri, 28 May 2010, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> Default behaviour is tapping on for no-button touchpads (like the ones on
> the apples) and tapping off for everything else.

It may well be a good default when the buttons are physically separate 
(like on a lot of touchpads). But when the bottom of the touchpad itself 
is the button (ie the touchpad has a rocker, and you have to press down on 
the touchpad itself), the buttons technically _exist_, but they are 
basically useless.

That Dell machine got a lot of bad reviews for its horribe touchpad, and I 
used to not understand why people disliked the touchpad so much - it 
didn't feel horrible to me. But now I wonder if Windows has the same 
logic, and reviewers - like me - hadn't realized to enable the tap 
feature.

			Linus
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