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This week in KDE: tap-to-click by default (pointieststick.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sanity is restored.

Love KDE, and good to see them chipping away at these pain points.

[+] [email protected] -40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nah, it's a bad default taught by Windows users on crap touchpads. Proper clickpads are vastly superior.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I love moving my finger away from the middle of the touchpad and down to the clicky-thingy just to then move it back to the middle of the touchpad. I think tap-to-click is just faster while having no real disadvantages

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I love moving my finger away from the middle of the touchpad and down to the clicky-thingy just to then move it back to the middle of the touchpad.

That's not a real clickpad then. Proper ones you can just press down everywhere. Even the type cover of my Surface has a that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh I thought you meant separate mouse-buttons. I still think tap-to-click is superior, but as always: if you like to click then go and configure your system to click

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

if you like to click then go and configure your system to click

Yes, that's good. And since they changed from mouse single click to double click, the amount of needed changes stays the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At lot of old laptops (including mine) have separate mouse buttons and tap-to-click. It was nice being able to use the separate mouse buttons when you didn't want to risk jiggling the cursor while clicking. Unfortunately nowadays all touchpads have the buttons integrated with the touchpad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ThinkPads still have real mouse buttons, at least. And some who copy the ThinkPad, like HP Zbook.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I personally prefer tap to click being off because I accidentally click too much when it is on. But it seems like I'm the only one with this problem, so I don't mind changing a setting for it.

Interestingly, on Windows you can't set three finger tap to a middle click unless tap is on for this gesture only. It's kind of a weird quirk.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go to settings and turn it off then

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Go to settings and turn it off then

I will, the default is still a bad one, just as single click for years has been bad all that time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you may be surprised to know that crap touch-pads are the majority of touchpads and even moreso in the future since old thinkpads are slowly going away

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you may be surprised to know that crap touch-pads are the majority of touchpads and even moreso in the future since old thinkpads are slowly going away

Companies like Asus and HP ship proper touchpads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of those are still terrible. Compare any of them to my 2011 macbook and they will loose badly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

300€ HP 255 G8 works very well, the physical buttons below the pad feel like they'll fall apart with every press as they are only hinged somewhere in the middle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My apologies, it seems we do not have the same definition of proper touchpads, of all the laptop brands in the world, asus and hp are amongst the few that I would consider unsuitable including their touchpads which are the most basic low grade pads i can think of, maybe their more than a grand models are better

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If anything, for me, it's the total opposite. I got used to tap to click by using my old MacBook with its awesome trackpad, and I turn it off on shitty trackpads because it leads to tons of misclicks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Better yet, real buttons.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Not my preference personally, but cool.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Common KDE W

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think this is a good default.

An impossible dream of mine would be to check a list of devices with haptic touchpads, and disable tap-to-click on those.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's a joke somewhere about it being called "Tap-to-Klick" I'm sure... but, this does seem like a good default! At least, on devices that have good palm rejection.

I do wish (there probably is a way) to bind the setting to a shortcut, I go back and forth for some reason on whether I want the setting enabled or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bruh. Finally.