Current Events > What the HELL happened to laptop trackpads

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Was there a coked up board meeting that caused this?

CEO: You know what would be good? Touch pads where you could click on things instead of pressing buttons to do that instead.
Engineer: Well yes, maybe, however we'd need to figure out a consistent way to drag and drop, and some rules around clicking. Naturally we'd drop the left and right mouse buttons altogether.
CEO: No keep those, those are great. More features are great. But instead of the buttons, just make the entire track pad one big button that you press in when you need to click. And make sure that any taps are registered as clicks too.
Engineer: Well I mean, you're just gonna have people accidentally clicking things, losing control of what they've dragged, and unable to distinguish between left and right clicks altogether
CEO: Just do that Apple thing. Two fingers together means right mouse clicks! And a hard press and hold means you want to drag something.
Engineer: Ok, so we don't need the entire trackpad to be one impossible button then?
CEO: Have you not been listening to a word? I said keep everything.

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lol they suck i know that

And how the fuck are you supposed to drag something more than halfway across the screen

I think they're great tbh. Rather tap than press down on a button

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I kind of like my ASUS touchpad - you can zoom in or out and scroll using multiple fingers, it's a cool feature.

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i can disable those fancy features on my laptop so its just a basic "move the cursor and nothing else" touchpad. for the most part i like 'em, but i find myself accidentally zooming in (accidentally "pinching") a lot and its annoying

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