We saw this issue in our work with the Cantagallo comunity school<br>here in Lima. Tuukka and Kaisa saw it in the teacher training they <br>attended, it seems to be very confusing for new users, who have<br>never used a touchpad before (they tend to touch the pad gently<br>
and briefly, obtaining a click instead of moving the pointer).<br><br>I think more testing should have gone into this before<br>deploying it!<br><br>Cheers<br>Sebastian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/22 Daniel Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Just wanted to communicate an experience from the deployment here:<br>
<br>
A while back, we (OLPC + community) discussed the behaviour of the new<br>
XO touchpads which have tap-to-click on by default. We debated<br>
including the fairly large software changes to be able to disable this<br>
functionality with the interest of retaining the behaviour of the old<br>
touchpad. We decided against it and shipped software with tap-to-click<br>
enabled, in hope that it wouldn't cause problems and users would<br>
adjust.<br>
<br>
Well, in my 3-4 months here in Nepal I've heard repeated cries for<br>
disabling this, since it is causing confusion for children and<br>
teachers in the schools. Really I think the biggest issue is that they<br>
press it by accident while typing or making other motions and have no<br>
idea why the screen has changed significantly (they don't understand<br>
that it's because they clicked, or that their hand was near the pad).<br>
<br>
Do other deployments share the same experience?<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sebastian Silva<br><br>