Comment 28 for bug 487749

Hi Rovanion

The default settings has been set by the upstream by a lot of thought process. The default behavior or settings has to such that it covers a majority of touchpads without any extra configuration and as of I know there are many laptops that has a touchpad without multitouch support. Emulation doesn't generate that experience in any way.

Because there are many users who want to have their own tastes and configuration they have provided a good enough and easy interface for that. However the default settings is a discretion of the developers who have chosen in the very right of all. So even requesting them of such a choice for changing the default settings , isn't a good idea, in that sense I'm closing this bug report. However if you have a very strong thought that you can personally convince them, I will advice you to personally contact them rather that waiting here in a bug report.

Thanks
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