[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 118095] Provide an option to disable drag and drop editing

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118095

lvm at royal.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |lvm at royal.net
             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|WORKSFORME                  |---
     Ever confirmed|1                           |0

--- Comment #3 from lvm at royal.net ---
Suppose I want to select some text with a mouse. What I want is to just do it -
press a button and move - done. If I understand you correctly you are proposing
that I should
1. consider whether the new selection starts in the middle of the existing one
2. if yes, make a second click - and wait, because if I click the second time
immediately it will be treated as a doubleclick making a new selection, and
here we go again, or click somewhere else
3. after a pause, start a new selection

There is nothing complex there, but editing a text is a set of automatic
actions when you don't think at all - like you don't think when you are walking
'I should lift my left leg and place it here', you just do it without thinking.
What you are proposing breaks this automatism, and this is an awful UX. I can
only restate that I want an option to completely disable drag and drop. I am
quite sure that I will never want to use it and it causes a number of unwanted
side effects described above. In this mode clicking on the selected area should
cancel the previous selection and start a new one from the point of the click.

I also may add that when I found no way to disable the drag and drop I tried
googling for the solution before filing this bug but found only pages and pages
of people lamenting the absence of this feature. You should try it too before
stating that there is no need for it.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&q=libreoffice+disable+drag%27n%27drop&btnG=Google+Search&gws_rd=ssl

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