Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.35-rc0

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 28 May 2010, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> Default behaviour is tapping on for no-button touchpads (like the ones on
> the apples) and tapping off for everything else.

It may well be a good default when the buttons are physically separate 
(like on a lot of touchpads). But when the bottom of the touchpad itself 
is the button (ie the touchpad has a rocker, and you have to press down on 
the touchpad itself), the buttons technically _exist_, but they are 
basically useless.

That Dell machine got a lot of bad reviews for its horribe touchpad, and I 
used to not understand why people disliked the touchpad so much - it 
didn't feel horrible to me. But now I wonder if Windows has the same 
logic, and reviewers - like me - hadn't realized to enable the tap 
feature.

			Linus
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