GNOME's Mutter Lands Implicit Grabbing In Clutter To Enhance Gesture Handling

[yump]

Implicit grabbing of all events for button and touch press->motion->release sequences

Er, what about right click context menus? And drag-drop inside applications?

[treba]

This was developed in the ongoing mobile initiative and will allow nice stuff like 2D gestures (see https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/20...ile-an-update/).
While especially nice on mobile, it's also a pretty big improvement for three-finger-gestures: start the gesture to go to the overview, then change your mind and switch the workspace instead - all in a super fluent and natural way. I strongly hope this will land for 44.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME's Mutter Lands Implicit Grabbing In Clutter To Enhance Gesture Handling

A ten month old merge request to GNOME's Mutter for adding implicit grabbing to the Clutter code was finally merged last week...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Clutter-Implicit-Grabbing