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Cool little trick/discovery! (Double-tap to zoom, even if it's turned off.)
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Look at it from a logical standpoint: We have two gestures (tapping and double-tapping with two fingers), where the second one is performed simply by repeating the first one. How could it possibly not logically follow that the system absolutely has to introduce some kind of lag when interpreting the first gesture so as not to react already to the first gesture when the user might still be in the process of finishing to perform the second gesture? If there was no lag at all, a context menu would come up between the first and the second two-finger-tap when you're trying to Smart Zoom?!
Everyone is agreed there is a lag of some kind, of course. However, the OP has timed his at half a second while others of us are reporting approx 1/10th of a second. To me it seems pretty obvious this is due to the double-tap speed setting in System Prefs -> Trackpad, but the OP seems unaware of this setting.
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For what it's worth, I can only find a setting named "Double-Click Speed" in System Prefs -> Universal Access ->Mouse & Trackpad -> Trackpad Options, and for me it only seems to have an effect on one-finger-taps not two-finger ones.
I've timed my lag at 3/10ths of a second, btw.:
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My setting is all the way to the right:
Where is yours, and the OPs?
Mine is, as I've said, too fast to accurately time, but definitely way less than that, and I'd estimate at 1/10th of a second.
So we have three different times reported here already: 0.5s, 0.3s and 0.1s. This rather demonstrates the point several of us have made that the lag varies. I'm rather bemused at the OP's insistence that his experience is The One True Time and yours and mine are somehow imaginary.
Not quite all the way. As I mentioned though, the setting doesn't seem to apply to tapping with two fingers at all, as far as I can tell.
Double-clicking speed affects how quickly you can repeat a double-click. For example, you open a folder and instantly double-click on the sub-folder. The longer the delay you have set in System Preferences, the longer you have to wait before opening the sub-folder.
Was useful on laggy systems, where you'd double-click and the folder wouldn't load right away so you'd double click again, then the folder would eventually appear and because you double-clicked twice, it'd end up opening the sub-folder too if your cursor was positioned there.
That won't affect this issue.
Was useful on laggy systems, where you'd double-click and the folder wouldn't load right away so you'd double click again, then the folder would eventually appear and because you double-clicked twice, it'd end up opening the sub-folder too if your cursor was positioned there.
That won't affect this issue.
They won't understand it. Those of us without problems have been trying to explain that they don't need to be speaking for us, but then they say that only their opinion matters. In reality, any "discussion" that is only one-sided is the ignorant one, not ours that is trying to state that the system isn't that bad if there are numbers of people (most who have been scared away from this forum because of the above, unfortunately) who are completely satisfied. It's us who should leave, clearly. Hahaha. It's like a sore loser attitude all over.
I don't know, only offer it as possible explanation for the different experiences posted in this thread.
What we know for a fact is that different people are reporting markedly different lag speeds for two-fingered tap. There has to be some explanation for this, and the most likely one is a different setting somewhere.
I never gave a time...? It's just a slight lag, I don't know the literal timing.
We're not complaining of a problem, I have no problem. It's a feature.
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For what it's worth, I can only find a setting named "Double-Click Speed" in System Prefs -> Universal Access ->Mouse & Trackpad -> Trackpad Options, and for me it only seems to have an effect on one-finger-taps not two-finger ones.
I've timed my lag at 3/10ths of a second, btw.:
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I'm not that technical about it, and I'm only getting frusterated because people think I'm complaining of a problem when I'm not. Maybe I missed where I said "half a second" or either I was using it lightly in a non technical way, it's just a small lag, I doubt half a second, though.
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