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Ghost clicking when an n+1 finger triggers a touch event
This is might be be tricky to explain...
I very often trigger un-intentional click events that make me do things I don't want to when using an app or website. I guess this is because my other the fingers tend to rest or hover very close to the trackpad area.
On a mac it's not a problem because: if you have one finger on the trackpad and move your finger around and leave that first finger on the trackpad, the cursor moves as expected and if another finger happens to touch the trackpad, that touch event is ignored until the first finger that started to move the cursor is released.
On windows, it's not the case: you can start moving the cursor around and if any other touch input happens it triggers a click event. This is driving me nuts and it leads to potentially really annoying actions where I delete or do stuff unintentionally (in Outlook mostly)!
Steps to reproduce:
- Go to https://github.com/ClementGre/ThreeFingerDragOnWindows/issues/new (as an example) of a UI with two inputs you can click on, the Title input and the Description text area.
- Tap on the description text area, to focus on it
- With your index finger, press it on the trackpad (don't release) move your finger and move the cursor over the title input, then with another finger tap when the cursor is over the title input. You will see the focus changes to the title input.
- Release your index finger.
I get that behaviour on the build-in trackpad of my surface laptop 6 and on my apple magic trackpad 2 on windows.
Is anybody else experiencing this?
If we could have an option to enable (or disable for those who find this is feature and not a bug) that behaviour that would be fantastic and really improve the trackpad experience on windows IMHO.
@ClementGre do you think ThreeFingerDragOnWindows could help with that?
PS: Did I mention ThreeFingerDragOnWindows is in my opinion the most useful app on Windows in my opinion? Thank you so much for much!