I love the Macbook Pro trackpad. It is a thing of beauty. The gestures in the System Preferences are great, but there is one thing that I can’t get used to and that is dragging objects. I always feel like I am going to drop a folder somewhere I’m not intending to.
For this reason, instead of the three-finger drag that is the new standard for OS X, I prefer to use the double-click-to-drag with Drag Lock.
With Drag Lock, you double tap, which turns the lock on, then drag and the object is locked to your mouse. When you are where you want to let go, you tap once more.
There is only one problem… sometimes that tap to let go doesn’t take, and you move your mouse somewhere and the object or the window edge come with it, which is very annoying.
So, here’s my simple suggestion…
When Drag Lock is active, slightly change the color of the cursor, like I’ve demonstrated below.
I use the Drag Lock feature because I find it hard to smoothly drag objects and prefer it, but I am sure that for someone who relies on Drag Lock because they cannot use their Mac without it, this feature would greatly improve their experience.
I hope Apple considers implementing it.
Thank you.
