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Switchboard Mouse & Touchpad Plug
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Tap-and-drag toggle #184

Closed YoKoGFX closed 3 years ago

YoKoGFX commented 3 years ago

It would be great if the OS would have a system level (GUI) option to disable double-tap to select while keeping the single tap to click. This is described in this askubuntu posting.

https://askubuntu.com/a/1115136

cassidyjames commented 3 years ago

Thanks for reporting this! It does look like the org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-and-drag GSetting is available to us and works in my testing, so this could be added to the Mouse & Touchpad settings. I'll transfer the issue there.

cassidyjames commented 3 years ago

@YoKoGFX to clarify, the AskUbuntu post you link to mentions the tap-and-drag feature, e.g. when you quickly double-tap the trackpad and then move your finger to drag things things like a window or to select free-form text. This feature is available to us, and I think it would make sense to add a setting for the accessibility and hardware compatibility implications.

However, regardless of this setting, it seems that double-tapping a word selects it. If that's the functionality you're looking to disable, I think it would be lower-level, e.g. possibly in GTK itself.