Bug#510005: ITP: touchfreeze -- a facility for disabling touchpad tap-to-click function

[Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>]

On Monday 29 December 2008 00:38:09 Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:04:58 +1000 Kel Modderman wrote:
> 
> >  Touchfreeze docks in your system tray and disables your touchpad
> >  while typing. It re-enables your touchpad when typing stops, using a
> >  configurable delay time.
> 
> How does this compare to syndaemon from xserver-xorg-input-synaptics?

It's a GUI application which sits in the system tray of desktop environments
that support that, whereas syndaemon is a command line utility.

Touchfreeze is a (limited) replacement for {k,q}synaptics, which were
developed by (to best of my knowledge) the same person/people, which have
since been declared abandonware and removed from Debian [0].

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/468941

Fathi Boudra intended to package touchfreeze, but didn't do so. I contacted
pkg-kde-extras team and co-ordinated to help maintain it under their
maintenance umbrella [1].

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-kde-extras/2008-September/006333.html

Thanks, Kel.