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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984615 Title: Wrong syndaemon settings in system settings To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/984615/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
