> I realize that Ubuntu is all about providing less choice/dumbing down the interface these days (which is why I'm on the brink of returning to mainline Debian after using Ubuntu since it was in beta - the original beta), but perhaps a good solution would to add a couple of additional checkboxes under "Disable touchpad when typing), one with "Disable taps and clicks" and the other with "Completely disable when typing."
That's at best a misleading comment ;-) Ubuntu (following GNOME example) tries to avoid "fix me" options to provide defaults that work for most users, it helps to make the system easier to use (no need to look through an hundred option to find things you are looking for) but also to improve quality since less codepaths means code easier to write,maintain,test,etc > I think it's also worth noting that both Mac and Windows - neither of which offer focus-follows-mouse - completely disable the touchpad while typing. That's what we did until recently, see the discussion on that bug for the context of why that was changed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/962958 Basically moving the cursor is less likely to create confusion that clicking (first because the default isn't focus follow mouse, but also because palm touching the pad is not likely to move the cursor a lot and small movements are not likely to over something else and change the focus) > On a Mac (using one at the moment), they seem to do it by using really good palm detection Right, Apple is picking the hardware they use so they can make sure their OS works on what they ship, it's harder in a world when you don't control the vendors and hardware your users run ;-) > WRT the whole idea of poorly supporting things like focus-follow- mouse, that's just not a good idea. People who've been using Linux for a long time (since the nineties, in my case) universally hate losing these features. It's not an "idea", it's just defining priorities, before having something "working for that special usecase" you need "something working at all", i.e you need to first build the foundations before building something on them or before talking adding specific features for groups of users. Nobody is against ffm, it's just not the most important "brick" in what is being built > You really need to bring back save-session-on-exit, too; yes, I've read the bug reports on that and the rationale around why it was removed, but they don't hold water. Other distros make it work; Ubuntu can, too. I would be curious to know what distro made it work. Or do you mean "work" like if you run gnome-shell, save your session and log into "gnome classic" you will get gnome-shell from the saved session and classic running at the same time? We had lot of similar issues and that's why we disabled it, from what we known nobody looked at solving those and other distros have the same issue. Note that bug #771896 go "fixed", those who really want session saving can set an environment variable under precise to get it, we just refuse to expose broken features to our users because it had bitten many users who used them in the past and broke their system without knowing when they were doing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984615 Title: Wrong syndaemon settings in system settings To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/984615/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
