Dock on touch screen does not handle touch events correctly

Bug #1769540 reported by PJSingh5000
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gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

If you touch an icon on the dock using a touch screen, the dock performs duplicate actions for a single touch event.

1. Touching the app-grid icon on the dock with your finger causes the "applications dash" to appear, and quickly disappear, as if you had left-clicked on the app-grid icon *twice* using a mouse button.

2. Touching any favorites icon on the dock with your finger causes the selected application to open *two* instances, as if you had left-clicked on the app-grid icon twice using a mouse button.

THIS ONLY AFFECTS UBUNTU-DOCK
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This only happens when using the touch screen to interact with the dock. Using a mouse or track-pad works as expected.

The top-bar behaves as expected, as well, when using the touch screen. For example, touching the Activities label ovens the "dash overview" as expected; touching the notifications area on the top bar opens the notifications/calendar as expected; touching the indicator icons behave as expected as well.

Interacting with open applications using the touch screen also works as expected. Applications respond to touch events as if a single event was generated.

UBUNTU DOCK
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Only the ubuntu-dock acts as if it received two (or more) touch events for each single touch action.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
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Ubuntu dock should respond as if it received a single click event, for each single touch event.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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If I touch the "Action" item at the top left of the desk-top, the overview appears. THEN, if I touch an icon in the dock, it behaves correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock 0.9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun May 6 20:35:07 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-05 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.0 2018.05.03 LTS "Custom Bionic Beaver"
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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PJSingh5000 (pjsingh5000) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1745888, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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