Need explanation for "Drag and drop threshold"

[gpk]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

The "Mouse Preferences" -> "General" -> "Drag and Drop" -> "Threshold"
needs a bit of explanation.

Is big good? Is it macho? Is small better? Generally, what does it do?
You probably know, but I'm not sure and I bet there are millions of
other people who don't know what it does.

Most notably, this is the only option on that window that you can't easily
experiment with. So, you have no trivial way of finding out what it means, either.

This is a minor bug, but a real one, especially for newcomers.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic-pae 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 20 20:35:41 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

In Natty: I can confirm that it still just says "Drag and Drop threshold" without any explanation. Yes, it's still an issue, because I still don't know what the drag-and-drop threshold does.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

A good solution for this will be to give the labels of the different options a tooltip explaining what they mean. As for drag and drop threshold, it's basically how far you need to move the mouse before and element it considered to be 'dragged'.

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[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

There is no "Drag and drop threshold" setting in gnome-control-center any more.