![]() ![]() Or better yet, allow designating part of the trackpad as click-only-area. But I decided that was too much work especially as I'm pretty confident Apple just will have to swallow their pride and provide gesture disabling in the near future. Being a veteran programmer I toyed with the idea of re-writing, reverse engineering, disassembling and hacking the trackpad driver. At least it makes using NeoOffice bearable.īut still the user experience leaves something to be desired.Īnd yet this would be so easy to solve with a little bit of programming. With this it is possible to assign the annoying gestures to harmless keys which partially solves the issue. In the end I found Will Henderson's MultiClutch control panel that allows you to re-assign the gestures to key board shortcuts. I even considered buying the Good Old Trackpad as a spare part and fitting it to the new MacBook, after all I do machining work on my spare time and the trackpad is a more or less standard USB device, so it might have worked out of the box software-wise. In my desperation I considered returning the MacBook Pro to the shop but that would have left me with my old MacBook whose backlight is so dim I need flashlight to see the text, dead battery and mere 2 GB RAM backed by a measly 80 GB disk. But no real solution.Īnd it should be relatively simple to just disable the gesture in software. So I started googling high and low with phrases like "apple multi-touch trackpad sucks" and indeed I found many people who were as annoyed as I was. ![]() I know the people in Redmond think they know "the right and only way" their software can and should be used, but "Et tu Brute"? Ever heard of user empowerment? What? No way to disable them? Come-on Apple, what were you thinking. My documents kept zooming in and out like the end of days were fast approaching.Īt this point I decided something had to be done.Ĭonfidently I went into the to the System Preferences with the intent to turn the gestures off. The shit really hit the fan when I started to use NeoOffice which actually obeys those gestures, unlike so many other applications that just silently ignore them. In practice it fails too often, turning an accidental non voluntary twitch of your thumb into a gesture, most often resulting zoom in/out action. The Apple engineers, to their credit, have realized this and have written the device driver to distinguish a resting thumb from a multi finger gesture, so you can do rest your thumb there. Except that the new multi-touch trackpad has no button. Most users, when they are using the trackpad, use the index finger to move the mouse cursor around and rest their thumb on the trackpad button, ready to click when needed. Granted, it takes a little bit more force than you want to exert with a lever as long as your index finger, but on the other hand you really want to use the side of your thumb to click anyway. Not just tap, but good old-fashioned proper resounding click. So you will disable the tap-to-click, and I guess the Apple engineers have realized this and equipped the trackpad with proper tactile feedback click feature that allows you to click by actually pressing the trackpad anywhere. If you do touch typing on a laptop, sooner or later your hands will accidentally touch the trackpad and the cursor will jump to some random place on the screen. It just generates too many accidental clicks. The tap-to-click feature does not really work. ![]() Zoom in/out and rotate are kind of cool, but I do not need them that often at all, I could easily live without them. After using it you wonder how you can live without it. I hate it.ĭon't get me wrong, I love some of the gestures on the trackpad, like the two finger scroll, which is totally addictive and performs flawlessly. I love it.Įxcept the new multi-touch trackpad. I even do graphics, CAD drawing and PCB layout using the trackpad. I never use a mouse, a trackpad has the best ergonomics for a touch typist. I'm a heavy user of computers, I do programming for living typing all day long. Have been using it for more than ten years on three Macs and several PC laptops. I'm a veteran touchpad / trackpad user and lover. Or if you want, you can just skip my rant and fast forward to the bottom of the page to see the solution. How can Apple make such a blunder.īefore you get all flamed up and tell how clever and cool it is, let me explain myself. ![]() There, I've said, I feel so much better now.Ī few months ago I got a brand new MacBook Pro with the new buttonless Multi-Touch trackpad (see picture on the left) and ever since I've been trying to get used to it. The New MacBook Pro Multitouch Trackpad Sucks About Spare Time Labs Spare Time Labs 2.0 ![]()
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