| Summary: | Touchpad disable icon gone, device with trackpoint. | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | retired <pepko94> |
| Component: | System Tray widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CLOSED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | materka, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 5.22.90 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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Description
retired
2021-09-17 22:30:24 UTC
The "disable touchpad" applet was deleted in Plasma 5.23 because it was causing people to brick their computer by disabling their touchpad *using* their touchpad, leaving them no graphical way of enabling it again. Hopefully it should be obvious how distressing this would be to a typical user. :) You can still set a global shortcut to toggle or separately enable and disable your touchpad, and if your keyboard has a dedicated "disable touchpad" button, that should still work. But we thought that this feature was far too dangerous to have a default GUI method of using it. I strongly disagree with this resolution. This function was present on laptops as far as I remember, Windows XP era. How about users start using their brains instead of clicking everywhere, isn't that a job of hover popups to warn them? I would like to propose a compromise, how about hide it by default and don't remove a useful function? Why are old users supposed to adapt? It's a matter of preference, same as change of windows being solid on moving, I had to revert it myself as well. |