Comment 2 for bug 1575911

Gunnar, are you serious? the ON/OFF switch disables the touchpad entirely, which is not what the OP is talking about at all.

The documentation says there is a setting to disable the touchpad while typing, which is a feature of MacOS, and possibly Windows. Its a very useful feature and Ubuntu should have it.

The Wiki is wrong, and the OS is deficient WRT to using the GUI to configure the touchpad. Its as bad as WIndows 10 in that respect.