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[Shaun Bouckaert <859474@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm also effected by this and it is not restricted to unity or gnome. I
am having the same problem in xfce.

As has been explained by Alti El at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-
synaptics/+bug/874675 , the action to drag seems to have gone from
(Tap)+(Press) to (Tap)+(Press and Drag)

The frustration is then initiating the drag on the second touch before
the timeout. Increasing the timeout certainly makes it more possible,
but there are many times when I would previously pause, whilst pressing
my finger, before I'd initiate dragging. I now have to arbitrarily move
to initiate the drag before the timeout before I can pause to work
carefully.

There's no reason the action should require the drag to be initiated
before a timeout. A double click can be represented by a double tap, so
as long as the finger is removed on the second tap before a timeout it
will register as a double click, and if the finger isn't removed before
the timeout it registers as a drag.

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  Dragging with touchpad unusable

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