touchpad tap status in F11 pre-release?

[psmith]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 16:02 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:51 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> There was no discussion that I noticed (see my post a day or two ago,
>>> when someone was kind enough to check their Gnome settings and see it's
>>> apparently disabled by default.)
>>>
>>> (By that, I mean no discussion that I saw on this list, I don't know
>>> about the developer lists.)
>>>       
>> Isn't this another upstream change - i.e. the new synaptics driver
>> disables it by default, while the old one enabled it by default?
>>     
>
> I've just installed f11 and it seems that the width of the vertical
> scroll area has been reduced.  I've got a Dell Inspiron 9300 with quite
> a big step up (about 2mm) from the mouse pad to the case and I have to
> jam my finger into the corner to get the scroll to work.
>
> R.
>
>
>   
i also see this in F11 on my aspire one, (i've been meaning to file a 
bz) and i can see no way of fixing it, the windoze driver includes an 
option for changing the size of the scroll areas but there is no such 
option in the linux version :(

phil