https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441717

--- Comment #7 from Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6)
> I think you may be confused. For buttonless touchpads, you generally press
> down on the pad to click. There will be an audible button press sound,
> because the whole touchpad is one big button. You don't have to tap to click.
> 
> If press-to-click doesn't work with your buttonless touchpad, it is quite
> broken.

Logitech t650 wireless rechargeable touchpad.  It was introduced when Windows 8
gesture support was the new big thing (Wikipedia says in 2012) and is long
discontinued tho it's still available from private resellers at jacked up
prices ($300 new, $100 used, IIRC I paid ~$50 new back then, but it's still in
demand with some due to its relative robustness and "natural pointing" usage
pattern that can help reduce repetitive motion disorder) from Amazon.  The face
is just a bare pad, tho it did have one physical button, designed to be the
context-click aka right-click button, as the bottom-right foot-pad.  But it was
/designed/ with tap-to-click for the primary button and (without remapping the
bottom-right-foot-button secondary-to-primary) has no other alternative for
that.  (And FWIW, the foot-button is now long gone as well, but two-finger-tap
was always easier for me anyway so that never bothered me.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Logitech_products#Touchpads

https://www.amazon.com/LOG910003057-Logitech-Wireless-Rechargeable-Touchpad/dp/B0093H4WT6

So it may well be "quite broken" by your definition, but it works and has
helped keep repetitive-motion-disorder at bay for me, and it needs tap-to-click
because there never was a physical primary button at all and the physical
secondary's long gone.

Now personally it'd be easier for me (as a gentooer building my own packages
anyway, just drop the patch in the appropriate auto-apply dir) to find and
hack-patch the boolean default, but we already know there's at least the
original bug filer who needed the functionality as well, and surely there are
others.  I think it's worth it, particularly when it could be as easy as a
default value flip (tho a bit harder if logic to enable it only when a touchpad
is the only available pointing device is added), and the penalty for getting it
wrong is a practically unusable system due to lack of ability to click.

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