Does "Press to click, stop touching to release" for touchpads already exist?

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I noticed that when using “Press to click” for tactile feedback, it requires users to keep their fingers’ strength sufficiently high while dragging files/scrollbars/text, etc.

So I had the idea that if users had an option that, while dragging, makes the part of releasing the click into “stop touching” instead of the rigorous “stop pressing”, would be a huge accessibility feature for notebooks. So I created Bug 500237

But now I’m not sure if this is already a setting somewhere, since if it works the way I think it would, then it would’ve been implemented already.

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Also it’s very weird that in order to have “Press to click” you need to deactivate “Touch to click”. It would make more sense to have a radio button to switch between the two.

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JFYI there’s no need to post about your bug reports on discuss; folks will see the bug reports eventually and respond to them there. Posting about it here forks the discussion and confuses everyone. :slight_smile:

The TL;DR version is that the feature you’re asking for would need to be implemented in Libinput.