feat: configurable touchscreen and touchpad gesture settings#3771

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feat: Add touch gesture support (mostly hardcoded)

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fix: prevent leaks of touch events when gestures are in progress

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fix: use output on absolute touch position instead of cursor position

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fix: allow clients to detect 2f gestures by changing `>=` to `>`

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feat: configurable touch gestures

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refactor: rename touch to touchscreen, add configurable touchpad gestures

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fix: remove per-gesture natural-scroll, clean up unused imports

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fix: finger count not checked during gesture direction detection

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feat: discrete touchpad swipe gesture binds (Mod+TouchpadSwipe3/4/5)

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feat: touchscreen edge swipe gestures + gesture lock

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feat: dynamic touch-binds system for touchscreen gestures

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feat: move touchscreen binds into unified binds {} block

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feat: move touchpad gestures into unified binds {} block

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feat: IPC gesture events with tags for external tool integration

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feat: add Noop continuous gesture kind with edge swipe progress accumulation

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feat: configurable gesture-progress-distance, touchpad progress, code cleanup

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docs: match touch gesture docs to current binds-based model

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refactor: rename Touch{N}Swipe/Pinch triggers to TouchSwipe{N}/TouchPinch{N}

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feat: continuous pinch gestures with smooth overview animation

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feat: split each touchscreen edge into three zone triggers

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fix: don't toggle window floating on second touch finger during MoveGrab

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feat: touchscreen-gesture-passthrough window rule

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docs: add Design:-Touchscreen-Gestures design rationale

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feat: 3/4/5-finger rotation gestures (proof of concept)

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refactor: parameterize Touch*/Touchpad* triggers with KDL properties

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fix: multi-finger rotation recognition hit rate (47% -> 75%)
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feat: gesture recognizer telemetry IPC + classifier fixes

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feat: N-finger tap detection (TouchTap trigger)

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perf: batch touchscreen gesture processing per frame

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feat: touchpad tap-hold and tap-hold-drag triggers (TouchpadTapHold, TouchpadTapHoldDrag)

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feat: touchscreen tap-hold-drag trigger (TouchTapHoldDrag)

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tune: adjust touchscreen gesture defaults based on real-world testing

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docs: add Design:-Gesture-IPC-Refactor RFC + admonition fix

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chore: align with niri logging convention — TOUCH-DBG FRAME → trace!

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fix: send up+cancel for pre-gesture touches to clear client phantom slots

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chore: apply cargo fmt across touch-gesture modules

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feat: touchpad pinch trigger (TouchpadPinch)

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chore: cargo fmt (trailing-comma + import grouping in foreign_toplevel.rs)
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