A way to disable the long-left mouse click shortcut to enter "Edit Mode" / modifying widgets?

[Duncan]

René J.V. Bertin posted on Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:05:09 +0200 as excerpted:

> @Duncan: in what part of the code did you see the implementation?

For the plasmashell long-click behavior I haven't seen the actual code 
(and if it was noted in the git log I either didn't notice or forgot about 
it), just confirmed (after reading the initial posts to this thread) that 
a long-click on the desktop did indeed trigger edit mode for me too.

But because it's a behavior clicking on the desktop itself, not something 
in kwin, etc, I'd say it's almost certainly coded in either plasma-
workspace or plasma-desktop.  And while I'm still a bit blurry on the 
difference between the two, from what I can tell (IOW, my best guess based 
on what I've seen including components that have moved from one to the 
other), plasma-workspace contains the common code that would apply to 
plasma-touch too, while plasma-desktop is desktop-specific.  So my guess 
would be plasma-workspace since it's behavior that applies to both the 
desktop and the mobile/touch interface.

The implementation I /did/ see more of -- at least as git log comments, I 
didn't then have reason to read the actual code and while I have a bit 
more now it's not yet risen to a priority to actually go back and find the 
git log comments and take a look at the code -- was in kwin, if I'm not 
mistaken, and was the relatively recent introduction of the 3-finger-swipe 
stuff, and earlier the four-finger-swipe stuff, to activate desktop 
switching and the overlay and grid effects -- which are all global and 
thus kwin's turf (as opposed to the above long-click which is plasmashell 
specific).

I'm pretty certain I could/can find the kwin code, since I know I saw the 
git log entries for it and can search back in git history for them, but 
rather less certain I could find the (presumably) plasma-workspace code, 
since I don't have git log entries to point me at it, thus leaving me 
either trying to search for git log entries that might not be there, or 
trying, as a git-sources-consumer literate[1] and patch literate but non-
dev kde-using gentooer, to find it in the code directly.

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[1]  Git:  consumer-side aka sysadmin-side vs. dev-side:  For example, I 
routinely do the git consumer-side tasks of checking git logs, inspecting 
individual git commits, sometimes with -R to create a revert-patch I can 
apply as-is or modify further, etc.  But the best I can do in terms of 
/submitting/ a patch is file a bug with an attached patch, even tho the 
kde bug attachment process specifically says bugs aren't checked for 
patches, because I'm not a dev and don't know the dev-side process for 
actually creating a branch, doing a commit, and pushing the result to 
invent.kde.org in ordered to create a PR/pull-request.

Similarly, running the gentoo/kde project live-git packages, when I detect 
that a gentoo-level patch needs rebased, all I can do is file a gentoo bug 
requesting it, perhaps with a patch attached that I've created by manually 
reviewing the old patch and comparing it against the new code.  I haven't 
a clue how to actually do it in git and submit what I'm told is a rebase 
as a pull request, because that's dev-side and all my git experience is 
admin/consumer-side.

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