If you've never used a touch-pad, you'd never know it. "Tapping" is when you tap the touch pad hard enough (it's an adjustable parameter). The touch-pad interprets a tap as a left-mouse click. Do it twice quickly and you get a double-click.
If you only use a pointing device like a mouse, you'll never even know about tapping. But if you have a touch pad and wonder why sometimes it acts like you've clicked when you didn't, it's probably because the tapping sensitivity is such that it interpreted your touch of the pad as a tap. The Wikipedia article about touch-pads discusses this in more detail.
Some people really like the tapping feature. I do not. Because of the way I use a touch-pad, having tapping turned on often leads to me doing click-drags when I don't want them.
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Date: 2012-10-02 03:04 pm (UTC)If you only use a pointing device like a mouse, you'll never even know about tapping. But if you have a touch pad and wonder why sometimes it acts like you've clicked when you didn't, it's probably because the tapping sensitivity is such that it interpreted your touch of the pad as a tap. The Wikipedia article about touch-pads discusses this in more detail.
Some people really like the tapping feature. I do not. Because of the way I use a touch-pad, having tapping turned on often leads to me doing click-drags when I don't want them.