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Agree. The funny part is that Apple's touchpad driver is open-source (under a scary Apple Open Source license, but still). You can read it. Or at least, you
by nfoz 12y ago
Agree. The funny part is that Apple's touchpad driver is open-source (under a scary Apple Open Source license, but still). You can read it. Or at least, you could circa 2006.
I've been meaning to hack on the Linux driver since back then, but honestly always expected someone more competent to try a touchpad-driver-rewrite instead. Maybe they have, but we still seem far behind, and I'm pretty sure it's a software issue.
That being said, physical buttons are superior. Clicking one means you know a click registered, so even if the software is doing something stupid, you're assured of your interactions. I don't understand why the buttons have gone away.
- tracker1 12y agoI like Apple's physical click-anywhere... it's still a physical click... just contextually sensitive. I don't like tap to click, and I don't like region clicking. My Logitech touchpad on my ubuntu htpc keyboard does this, and pisses me off when it right-clicks because I'm in the bottom-right quarter of the pad (not sure if it can be changed in windows, no option in ubuntu).
- nfoz 12y agoI agree tap-click is awful. MacOS does a fantastic job at supporting both modes. Other laptops... not so much. They seem to expect tap-click, because they get so confused when there are two fingers on the pad. I want to move with one finger and click with another. This requires some real software intelligence, to know that the click-finger should not affect the move-finger's motion, and detect when you're doing a multi-touch gesture vs.just clicking.