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24.0.97; Left mouse click setting the mark every time?!??

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From: Tobias Bading <tbading <at> web.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd <at> gnu.org>, 11588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11588: 24.0.97; Left mouse click setting the mark every time?!??
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:10:22 +0200

On 30.05.2012, at 19:41, Drew Adams wrote:
> Yidong said, "if you move the mouse a little bit between the down and up events,
> the mark gets set anyway".  So it sounds like that "little-bit" setting, if only
> a pixel or two, was too small.  I would have guessed (incorrectly) that it would
> have been at least half of a char-width.
> 
> But as I said, the best thing in a case like this, where different users would
> anyway want/need different tolerances, would be to provide a user setting
> (option) for the slop movement between down and up.

Agreed, some threshold value (probably in pixels) to distinguish between a click and a drag would be nice.

Although, isn't this part of the job of a window system? Something like: When a mouse button is pressed, only start sending mouse-move events after the mouse has travelled at least a small distance? Otherwise every click on an icon with a non-100% steady hand would be interpreted as a request to move the icon. Oh my, GUI stuff is complicated ;-).

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