Does anyone have a use for the touchpad animated systray icon on laptops?

[mikeymikec]

It has a grand total of one use for me - I know that I've got the right manufacturer's touchpad driver installed. Why the hell is it enabled by default?

 

[fralexandr]

it can be used to disable or enable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in.
I use it sometimes if i want to have both enabled or the touchpad disabled.

There are other rarely useful settings that can be changed through it too.

 

[Ravynmagi]

So you can get into your touchpad settings quicker?

 

[mikeymikec]

I know what it can be used for, but my point remains - nobody has felt the need to include an app in a/the mouse driver to 'helpfully' tell people on the systray "dude, you're using the mouse right now!".

I haven't checked with every touchpad driver, but AFAIK most can be configured to auto-disable the touchpad when a mouse has been plugged in, and otherwise, once you've got the touchpad configured the way you want it, are you honestly diving into its settings so often as to merit a systray app?

I just think that having it on by default should have gone out of fashion at least ten years ago. If there is someone out there who wants/needs a systray icon for the touchpad, the option could remain to enable it, but otherwise it has to one of the most ignored systray icons, possibly second to the QuickTime player icon.

 

[Sheep221]

I disabled that, well I still say too many tray icons are hurting system I have only 5 tray icons - network, USB unmount icon(this can't be removed) because of card reader, MSE, Boinc client and some mouse driver program, but that's static and icon itself can't be removed too. So if there wouldn't be 2 icons force I would technically endup with only 2-3 icons, I don't even remember I ever had more.

 

[corkyg]

No - I keep my touchpad OFF.

 

[Ravynmagi]

I'm so fascinated that this is even a topic of discussion.