"....well, don't do that, then!" - is this really sensible?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello again, xfce.

Is anybody listening?

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 19:59:18 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

[ .... ]

> ...., I clicked on <Settings>/<Mouse and Touchpad>, where
> I had the misfortune to click on an On/Off button.  BIg Mistake!  This
> disabled the mouse entirely.  More than that, it disabled the XFCE4
> session entirely. [ .... ]

> Worse than that, after I terminated XFCE4 with <alt>F4 and restarted it,
> it restarted with the mouse disabled.  [ .... ]

This is a UI bug which totally fouls up XFCE until you edit a text
configuration file by hand, assuming you're capable of this.

Was my original post too convoluted to follow?  Why has nobody picked up
on this main point and answered it?

[ .... ]

> I think it's a bug that there is no "this could disable your XFCE4; are
> you sure you want to do this?" dialog box attached to this On/Off button.
> It is not clearly labelled, and it is far too easy to click on, and far
> too difficult to recover from after having clicked it.  Would you please
> consider amending this facility.

[ .... ]

> Thanks!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).