Re: Status of touchpad support in F12 for kdm?

[mcloaked <mike cloaked gmail com>]

Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler <at> chello.at> writes:

> No, tapping is disabled by default distrowide, there's nothing KDM can or 
> should do about this. This is an intentional decision by the upstream 
> Synaptics driver developers. Most touchpads have dedicated buttons you can 
> press, which are much harder to click accidentally than it is to trigger an 
> unwanted tapping click.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler

Given the recent long thread concerning upstream decisions about defaults in
Thunderbird 3.0beta4 it seems to me that just because upstream makes a specific
decision does not always mean that is the best decision. What happens
when releasing a package in Fedora can be given a possible better decision
than upstream at times - I wonder what others feel about the defaults in this
 case for touchpad behaviour?