In KDE4, I disabled the much-hated "drag and drop" by patching kcontrol/input/mouse.cpp in kde-workspace-4.11.n.tar.xz (setting dragStartDist to 1000 pixels).

So far, I haven't been able to locate where this parameters is set in KDE5 (the whole structure has obviously changed quite a bit), and this has already caused me massive problems.

Can someone point out what file contains this information now?

Thank you in advance.

Why patch the code?
Just change the corresponding value in the config file, ~/.config/kdeglobals.

To set the system-wide default, do it in /etc/xdg/kdeglobals.

wolfi323 wrote:Why patch the code?
Just change the corresponding value in the config file, ~/.config/kdeglobals.

To set the system-wide default, do it in /etc/xdg/kdeglobals.

I guess the biggest reason is that the method you describe simply doesn't work - any value above 20 for StartDragDist (as it is called now), is simply truncated to 20 (FAR too low for me).

glupie wrote:I guess the biggest reason is that the method you describe simply doesn't work - any value above 20 for StartDragDist (as it is called now), is simply truncated to 20 (FAR too low for me).

Well, I didn't know that.
Maybe file a bug report/feature request at http://bugs.kde.org/ then? (either to increase the maximum StartDragDist, or to add an option to disable drag completely)

The code is in plasma-desktop now though, kcms/input/mouse.cpp is probably what you are looking for.

Though on a quick look, I see nothing that "truncates" the value from the config file in there.
The config module has a maximum of 20 though, so if you set it higher, the settings would show 20 I suppose.
If it's truncated somewhere else (when applying the settings on login), patching the config module won't help either I think...

wolfi323 wrote:The code is in plasma-desktop now though, kcms/input/mouse.cpp is probably what you are looking for.

Though on a quick look, I see nothing that "truncates" the value from the config file in there.
The config module has a maximum of 20 though, so if you set it higher, the settings would show 20 I suppose.
If it's truncated somewhere else (when applying the settings on login), patching the config module won't help either I think...

The minimum and maximum values are in plasma-desktop-5.7.5/kcms/input/mouse.cpp

Just changed these two lines:

dragStartDist = new KIntNumInput(20, advancedTab);
dragStartDist->setRange(1, 20, 1);

Then recompiled, and it works (or I should say drag and drop now "doesn't work") perfectly. :)