It's button 2, so it makes sense for it to be on 2 fingers, and to make it easier to middle-tap than right-tap because (almost?) no touchpad has a real middle button, but most have a right button. So obviously somebody decided it would be better to be "consistent" with Windows at the expense of true consistency and usability :-(.
Of more concern is that someone decided to disable middle-tapping altogether for touchpads which don't support multiple fingers. IMO the capplet should be extended so you can use it to configure how button 2 and 3 are emulated with taps. Ubuntu is supposed to be an "it just works" distro, and I don't expect it to be virtually unusable before fiddling around with xorg.conf or with that xinput command I found with a lot of luck. -- [Karmic] No middle key emulation with synaptics touchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
