https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429665
--- Comment #10 from Tyson Tan <tyson...@tysontan.com> --- (In reply to Kevin Kofler from comment #9) I've already said it in Comment 2, I suppose I should expand the details: > If there is really no other way to click on a given touchpad Even though most button-less trackpads can press-to-click, but in reality, such interaction is not a practical way to use those devices. They are clearly not engineered to be used as such. The natural interaction on those device is self-explained: 1) Who knows to press down for a button, when there is NO BUTTON to be seen? -- newer generations GREW UP WITH TOUCHSCREENS, -- they will never have guessed the trackpad can be pressed down for a button. 2) You often need to press really hard to initiate a click. -- because unlike a physical button, you don't know where the switch is under the surface. -- as such, precise clicks and dragging are nearly impossible, -- and mistakes are rampant because there is no clear divide between the trackpad and the "buttons". If there is anything the trackpad designers are trying to imply, they are encouraging people to use tap-to-click, while discouraging people from using press-to-click. Press-to-click on a trackpad is more like a fail-safe, fallback, last-resort kind of feature. According to my observation, NOBODY in ANY organization I worked in EVER used press-to-click on their button-less trackpads. EVERY people I EVER recommended KDE Plasma to, the FIRST difficulty they ran into on a laptop has ALWAYS been the "tap-to-click" feature being disabled by default. > For everyone else, defaulting to tap to click is a bad idea because it is > redundant with the physical clicks and because it is prone to misclicks. Maybe it only with old trackpads. Not so much for modern devices. I never had any misclicks on my tiny 10-inch mini-laptop with tap-to-click. > disabling that misfeature was one of the first things I changed. Now enabling that feature becomes one of the first things I changed, and the same for many more other people... Disabling tap-and-click by default is a misfeature that turns first time users away. Really bad first impression when you can't even click anything unless educated before-hand. EVERY OTHER OSes are doing the opposite, KDE Plasma's default behavior stands out like a sore-thumb. The situation has changed, and the world has moved on. We need to adapt. I really don't think dwelling on the past experience is going to help us in the long run. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
