This is a miss-feature. most laptops have track pads. Most track pads are configured to send a click if tapped to the program under the cursor.
There are options to change this behavior in gnome, (in KDE one had to do some configuration file editing) I am just saying that the default should be OFF... because I witness so many people miss click, and be very close to the unintended destruction of their data. Either you don't have any access to a laptop, or you are looking for a way to close a bug in a way other than WONT FIX. I expected a WONT FIX... as most computers have this erroneous behavior... and some people are coming to expect it. almost every user I talk to wants the setting in the off position. They just don't know that it is an option. -Aaron Peterson On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Gursimran singh Mohar <simar....@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > We are sorry for the delay in providing support. > Thanks for reporting bug and helping us to make ubuntu, even better. > Unfortunately, the information you liked with the bug report is not > sufficient for us to probe into the bug. For developers to work on this bug > we want to have additional information from you, regarding the bug. > > Is the still present in latest meverick. > > Consider referring this > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection for any help. > > ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => Low > > ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > bumping trackpad results in click (tapping) syntaptics > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382071 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > brushing a finger on a trackpad should NEVER result in a click action. > There is no reason for this, and it is highly disorienting for most of the > people I know when random things happen on their computers. My novice > friends fear computers because of random things happening, and many moderate > people switch to external mice because of this bug. > > Note, this highly disturbing behavior is also default in windows, and is > called tapping. Macs also have a similar thing, but they at least have > their trackpad click, but it's still wrong. > > Basically, > > 1. we need tapping to be off by default, This will likely require a source > modification to the syntaptics module, and not just a change in the config > file, because it's a multi step config file change (something about dpms) > > and for the few people who like it, > 2. the option to toggle it on should be made easy. Right now it's > googling and editing an Xorg config file, so everytime we have to regenerate > an x config, it comes back up! > > > This is a security vulnerability, I have seen it happen on more than just > me and my system, people click objects that they wern't trying to, and if > it's an executable, or file that gets loaded, the system gets > compromised... also people are more likely to submit web information and > submit erroneous data into forms. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/382071/+subscribe > -- bumping trackpad results in click (tapping) syntaptics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
