Confirmed here as well, on precise, saucy, and trusty in unity, on multiple devices.
The lack of this feature is an annoyance to me (and others I know) daily. Dragging very far across a screen without drag-lock is unsafe, as there may not be enough touch-pad real-estate to make the journey, or the sensitivity of the pad may lead to inadvertent drop. In both cases, items wind up being dropped where they don't belong -- often into unintended folders, etc. not only locally, but in web-interfaces that may lack undo-features, or have public side-effects. Not everyone has physical buttons for their newer touch-pads to use as a work-around, and many of us prefer to have a silent (no mechanical clicks) mousing experience. The lack of this feature is one of those things that makes Ubuntu suffer polish-points and usability points versus the other major OSs and their GUIs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234846 Title: Touchpad options missing drag lock feature Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This has been an issue for quite some time, and I think it deserves some serious attention for the 14.04 LTS release. There is no way to enable/disable (or adjust) drag lock in Ubuntu without going into a shell and using xinput. It would be nice to have a checkbox to enable/disable drag lock, and possibly set the lock timeout value as well, though a hardcoded value might work OK too. I have my "Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout" to 500 and it feels like a good natural delay. (the user can always tap again while locked to force unlock like on other OSs). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: unity 7.0.0daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' Date: Thu Oct 3 12:23:41 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-15 (17 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1234846/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
