https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429665
Louis Moureaux <m_loui...@yahoo.com> changed:
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--- Comment #7 from Louis Moureaux <m_loui...@yahoo.com> ---
This is one of the few settings that I consistently change when installing a
new Kde on a laptop. On the touchpads I've used so far, there is no way of
positioning my hand so I can do all types of clicks without moving my wrist
significantly. Without touch-to-click, I need to give up on either moving the
pointer, left clicking, or right clicking. To give an idea, if the touch
sensitive area is the JKL; row of a US keyboard, left click is the B key, and
right click is the right CTRL key (or if you're left-handed, it would be be
ASDF/meta key/B key respectively). As Tyson noted, pressing the mouse click
areas requires a lot of force, more than pressing a key on the keyboard.
The same usability issue arises in SDDM, for which there is no nice
configuration GUI, so maybe it needs to be fixed at the distro or libinput
level indeed. It was mentioned in #436077 that libinput wouldn't change their
default
(https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/tapping.html#tap-to-click-default-setting).
Maybe they will agree to reconsider a 9-years-old decision in the light of
market changes: most laptops sold today no longer even have a visual hint that
there are buttons hidden under the touchpad.
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