[PATCH libinput 2/5] Add configuration interface for tap drag-lock

[Bill Spitzak]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
wrote:

>
> > Perhaps you are already doing this, but can't you require the mouse to be
> > held down and/or moved more than some threshold on the first drag to turn
> > on drag-lock mode?
>
> interesting idea, but I don't think it'll work. too much guesswork, too
> easy
> to get wrong. for example, when I know I need to cover a large distance
> while dragging, a quick 3-4cm repeated drag is faster than a couple of
> large
> moves.
>

I was thinking the threshold would be much smaller than 3-4 cm, more like 1
cm. However I don't actually have a trackpad that works this way so I
really am not one to guess what would work.

Have you seen similar behaviour on Windows or Mac and can you experiment to
see what they did? I would not be suprised if they break Inkscape in the
same way, however.
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