Bug 471161 - Touchpad settings: disabling "Tapping" disables elements not in grouping
Summary: Touchpad settings: disabling "Tapping" disables elements not in grouping
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_touchpad (show other bugs)
Version: 5.27.5
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2023-06-17 14:28 UTC by Miles B Huff
Modified: 2023-09-14 22:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2023-06-17 14:28 UTC, Miles B Huff
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Description Miles B Huff 2023-06-17 14:28:05 UTC
Created attachment 159748 [details]
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SUMMARY
Disabling "Tapping" in the "Touchpad" settings disables elements not in the "Tapping" grouping.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Disable "Tapping" in the "Touchpad" settings.

OBSERVED RESULT
The section labelled "Two-finger tap", which is not a part of the "Tapping" section, also gets disabled.

EXPECTED RESULT
Disabling "Tapping" only disables "Tapping".

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: 6.3.7
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I personally *hate* single-finger taps, but love two-finger taps.  The inability to configure KDE in the way that I want is of course annoying, and perhaps especially so because this particular situation *looks* like a bug:  "Tapping" and "Two-finger taps" are separate sections, so one would not expect them to interact with each other.
To resolve this situation in as general a way as possible, I would suggest renaming "Tapping" to "One-finger taps", for consistency;  and also of course making it so that disabling "One-finger taps" does not also disable "Two-finger taps".
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-09-14 22:22:42 UTC
Two-finger tapping is a type of tapping; if you disable tapping, you can't do a two-finger tap, so the controls for it become disabled.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-09-14 22:39:46 UTC
In case it was not clear: what you want is something we can't do. It's not possible to enable two-finger tabs but not one-finger taps. This is a limitation of the Libinput driver that this settings page is configuring, and not anything we determine in any KDE code.