Comment 6 for bug 175986

I second previous posts. My experience after installing v.8 on many computers, mainly used by people with very low tech-skills, is that this is a very annoying feature. The idea is good, the implementation is not as good.

Why?

First problem is that its not consistent with normal mouse pad behaviour. If you ignore that fact (in order to develop new ways to interact with a computer) several problems are clear.

1: Its very easy to trigger a desktop change.

2: Several of my users have thick fingers (craftsmen etc.) and the combination of big hands/fingers with sensitive/precise desktop change-behaviour is not working. Even users without that problem often accidentally trigger a desktop change.

Solution:

1: temporary; add "disable feature x"

2: long term; fix the interaction to fit a broader user-base (or something else).