[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 89999] Add support for 3-finger dragging

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89999

Schlomo Schapiro <schlomo at schapiro.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |---

--- Comment #19 from Schlomo Schapiro <schlomo at schapiro.org> ---
Hi everybody, please reconsider the decision in comment #10 to push
three-finger-drag into the compositor.

The reason is that the user who initially asked for this has a very simple
request: Get the same behavior as on Mac OS X. There you can do
three-finger-drag to select text, do drag and drop and move around things on
the screen.

I have the feeling that the discussion here steered off that goal into drag and
drop only, see the original request by Sen Chui at
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2015-April/057286.html). I think
that the main use case is much more than just drag and drop and that text
selection is probably the primary use case for most people. This is due to the
fact that three-finger-drag allows selecting text without any interruption in
the flow whereas double-tap-drag requires you to lift off your finger from the
touchpad.

So, if to go back to the original goal to have an alternative to
double-tap-drag wouldn't libinput and the corresponding Xorg input driver the
right place for that?

Another thing is that now in 2017 most users still use Xorg (e.g. on Ubuntu
16.04 LTS) so that IMHO it is worth the effort to help those users now.

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