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Add touchpad drag-lock related settings

Open hanaral opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Problem

The current touchpad mechanism to drag seems like a monolithic, rather inaccessible solution that is only there because it was there before. I know that people who have less dexterous fingers (whether that is a medical condition or age, it shouldn't matter) struggle to double-tap-to-drag.

Proposal

Add options to change the mode of touchpad drag locking such as:

  • Double tap to lock the drag until clicked again
  • 3 Finger drag (disables ability to use 3 finger workspaces)

This is the way macOS has handled it for a while and it works really well (I much prefer 3 finger dragging as opposed to double tapping)

Prior Art

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hanaral avatar Apr 12 '21 09:04 hanaral