https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434718
Bug ID: 434718
Summary: Left-click to disable touchpad can make laptop
unusable
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.21.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: critical
Priority: NOR
Component: Touchpad
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: n...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
When you're using a laptop and you left-click on the touchpad applet, the
touchpad becomes disabled, and you have no means to re-enable it using the
touchpad. Since it has no keyboard shortcut by default either, then your laptop
has just become unusable.
At this point, one of two things will happen:
1. If you have an external mouse handy, you have to go get one, plug it in, and
click on the applet again to re-enable it. This is an annoyance.
2. If you don't have an external mouse handy--say you're on a train or a plane
or at a conference--then your laptop has become catastrophically unusable and
you will reconsider ever using KDE software again.
Left-click-to-toggle-touchpad is far too dangerous a default setting for this
applet. Consider switching to middle-click, or removing the functionality
entirely.
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