Comment by bipson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bipson | Hacker News Reader

I was hoping to see MacOS style three-finger drag being available through this. Unfortunately, it will technically most certainly not be possible to augment it this way, and the maintainer of libinput considers three-finger drag as a luxury that will introduce unnecessary overhead and complexity.

Three-finger drag is IMO one of the most helpful usability features of MacOS, and I miss it dearly every day since I bought my XPS 13.

Edit: ... which is not the fault of the developer of this tool. Good job, I like the spirit and think this is incredibly useful and powerful.

The tool could further make configuration of the most common use cases simpler IMO. Not every user is keen or able to enter the specific commands.

Thanks! I'm also on an XPS 13, and also an ex-Mac user who misses the trackpad stuff, so I know how you feel. Not only knowing commands but especially playing with dbus is unfortunately something for very advanced users only, so my idea was to build some sort of "DB" for common dbus commands that act on DEs, say, to open Budgie Desktop's notifications menu, plus an assisted GUI configuration that generates commands for keyboard shortcuts (xdotool or something), workspace actions (move, add...) and an "Open app" selection dialog. That's gonna take a long while though :(

> so my idea was to build some sort of "DB" for common dbus commands that act on DEs

This is great, where is the information you currently have and how can I contribute? I find that DB to be pretty important for this tool.

That's just an idea for future releases, though it needs a much wider user base to make any sense...

I've created something temporary here, feel free to add anything :)

https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures/wikis/desktop-specific-c...

As silly as it may sound, three-finger drag is the primary reason why I will likely be purchasing a MacBook Pro instead of a Surface Book as my next laptop.

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