Comment 8 for bug 386017

I just stumbled on this issue via a post on Planet Ubuntu, and I just have to leave my 2¢ here :)

 I hope you just mean disabling "tapping on the right corner with a single finger issues a middle-mouse-button-click" (Which I have never encountered on any laptop I had used).

My more generic view is that I don't think disabling a user interface function is a good idea: This (or a similar) "bug" was apparently fixed in karmic two weeks ago, thus tap-to-click (and multitouch scrolling) stopped working on my Eee PC 900. Left with no scrolling or tapping at all, I went through a lot of trouble, googling for hours until I found out that it was just disabled now, and it changed even my existing profile (apparently some new gconf registry keys were introduced). After re-enabling them under Settings->Mouse I was happy again.

I thus "vote" for keeping the feature enabled, with an easy option to turn it off, with a simple reason:
When a feature works, but is annoying, people will search for a way to turn it off, and the mouse settings window is the logical place to start.
But when a previously working feature just stops working, this rather smells like a bug (Experience taught me that I can expect more features from newer Ubuntu releases, not less). And people who have never seen middle- or right-click-on-tap might never know that their hardware is capable of pasting text without either moving to the keyboard (CTRL-V) or doing a wild two-finger-button-stunt (middle-mousebutton-emulation), especially on hardware where both mouse buttons are together in one stiff piece of plastic (like some Asus laptops we have at work).

Ciao

Martin