Bug 436077

Summary:	UX: Make "Tap to Click" the default option
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	guimarcalsilva
Component:	Touchpad	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	daanturo, fabian, guimarcalsilva, jr, kde, nate, neon-bugs, sitter, trmdi
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description guimarcalsilva 2021-04-23 05:31:57 UTC

SUMMARY

The vast majority of KDE users enable "tap to click" in touchpad settings (https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/mwnqfc/laptop_users_do_you_enable_tap_to_click_on/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)

In order to have a better first boot user experience and avoid unnecessary setup after installing Neon it would be wise to have "tap to click" enabled by default in both Plasma and SDDM.

Comment 1 Fabian Vogt 2021-04-25 12:38:44 UTC

Reassigning to Plasma, this makes sense for all distros.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2021-04-25 14:06:37 UTC

Plasma should not override libinput defaults.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-04-25 14:38:43 UTC

In other words, this should be done at the libinput level.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/

Comment 4 Fabian Vogt 2021-04-25 14:40:38 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> In other words, this should be done at the libinput level.
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/

They won't change that, see https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/tapping.html#tapping.

Comment 5 guimarcalsilva 2021-04-25 14:49:41 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #2)
> Plasma should not override libinput defaults.

I think in this case this request could be moved back to Neon as originally intended.

Comment 6 Harald Sitter 2021-04-26 11:26:20 UTC

Nah. Either libinput can be convinced, or Plasma can be, but doing it for neon alone is cookie cutting and has a firm -1 from me. Neon isn't generally in the habit of overriding the decisions of the actual authors of the software.

The libinput devs have unique domain knowledge here. They clearly thought about this default and if they concluded that tap to click does more harm than good then I'm 100% believing them as I have zero domain knowledge. With that in mind the libinput devs need convincing, not the neon devs.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2022-05-10 15:29:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 429665 ***