Thanks for your response, Sebastien. I realize that Ubuntu is all about providing less choice/dumbing down the interface these days (which is why I'm on the brink of returning to mainline Debian after using Ubuntu since it was in beta - the original beta), but perhaps a good solution would to add a couple of additional checkboxes under "Disable touchpad when typing), one with "Disable taps and clicks" and the other with "Completely disable when typing."
I think it's also worth noting that both Mac and Windows - neither of which offer focus-follows-mouse - completely disable the touchpad while typing. On a Mac (using one at the moment), they seem to do it by using really good palm detection, since if I type with one hand and use the other hand to move the mouse cursor, I can do it between key strokes, no matter how fast I type. Ubuntu seems to be slewing strongly in the OS X direction, and in many respects that's a Good Thing. Copying what Microsoft does in their UI surely is not, anyway. If it's going to go in that direction, let's really take in that direction, instead of having half-baked functionality like the one that led me to file this bug. WRT the whole idea of poorly supporting things like focus-follow-mouse, that's just not a good idea. People who've been using Linux for a long time (since the nineties, in my case) universally hate losing these features. You really need to bring back save-session-on-exit, too; yes, I've read the bug reports on that and the rationale around why it was removed, but they don't hold water. Other distros make it work; Ubuntu can, too. I know you're just one guy and maybe don't have much influence over those policy decisions, but honestly, Ubuntu appears to me to have long ago stopped being about what the users want and is only about what the design team wants. That's just not the road to success. Well, the Apple kind of success, but at some point you stop being Linux if you go to far down that road. Thanks for your time, Jonathan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984615 Title: Wrong syndaemon settings in system settings Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 Problem: checking "Disable touchpad while typing does not actually disable it (at least not on my new HP Envy 15). The settings it causes to be used are: syndaemon -d -i 2.0 -K -R -t This only disables taps, which causes the cursor to run wldly around the screen while typing. "Not a problem!" you say? Try using focus follows mouse, especially with auto-raise, then come back and tell me that :-) The correct settings are: syndaemon -d -i 2.0 -K -R This completely disables the touchpad while typing, for two seconds. My workaround was to uncheck the box and add syndaemon, with my parms, to the Startup Applications. This is maybe not a blocker, but I think getting a bug fix out on this sooner rather than later would be good. Putting the workaround in the release notes might also be a good idea. It could save others the hours of research I've put in. 2 seconds also seems a bit long, I'm going to try 1.5 and 1.25 and see how that works out. Let me know if there's any other info you need or anything you'd like me to test. Thanks! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/984615/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
