Re: Visual DND too sensitive?

Charles Goodwin wrote:
> I frequently accidentally move text in AbiWord when selecting text then
> clicking in the middle of selected text, intending to reposition the
> cursor. It seems that it only takes 1 or 2 pixels of mouse movement to
> initiate the visual DND of text, and this is simply far too sensitive.
> Whilst it's only a simple undo away from restoring parity, it's just
> frustrating when it occurs regularly.
>
> I imagine, given that I'm using a PC all day every day, that this would
> afflict far less computer savvy users of AbiWord. Or indeed anybody
> who doesn't have a rock-steady mouse hand.
>
> Shouldn't it require maybe 5 (or some arbitrarily not-small number of)
> pixels of movement before starting to move the text?

This is filed as Bug 7634.
Received on Wed Feb 2 17:39:29 2005