RFE: libinput should let a thumb used for clicking rest anywhere on the pad, not just on the bottom edge
Submitted by Nate Graham
Assigned to Wayland bug list
Description
I have an HP Spectre x360 (Kaby Lake) with a touchpad, running Fedora 25, GNOME 3.22, Wayland, and libinput 1.5.1 (release 1.fc25).
Having moved to Fedora 25 from macOS, one thing I miss is the inability to rest my thumb anywhere on the pad, click with my thumb, and manipulate the cursor/scroll with fingers. libinput only ignores a thumb if it's resting on a tiny strip on the bottom of the pad. macOS does a really amazing job of ignoring a stationary thumb used only for clicking that's anywhere at all on the pad, and I and many others adapted to this behavior, which is really nice.
It would be great if libinput could do the same thing and just totally ignore a stationary thumb used only for clicking, no matter where it is on the pad. Since thumbs are big, and a thumb used in this way is likely to be resting horizontally, it should show up as a large surface area and hopefully be easy to detect.
Version: 1.5.0