Increase scroll threshold when dragging Patterns in Zoom Out

[getdave]

What problem does this address?

Currently you can scroll the page when dragging blocks but the threshold for activating the scroll is very small. It is perhaps about 30px threshold which may mean

• people don't discover it
• it's difficult to access for people with certain accessibility needs

What is your proposed solution?

Increase the threshold.

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[getdave]

cc'ing @richtabor who demoed this to me and may wish to add additional context

[getdave]

@jorgefilipecosta Did you have any luck here?

[jorgefilipecosta]

Hi @getdave, unfortunately, I did not get luck on this one. I tried to understand what makes the editor scroll while dragging. Initially, I thought it was the code on packages/block-editor/src/components/block-draggable/use-scroll-when-dragging.js but it is not that code, even removing that code scrolling while dragging from the inserter happens.
It seems like the browser is the one doing the scroll while we drag from the inserter so we don't have much control of this. We may need to implement some custom logic to make the scroll happen with a threshold we can configure.
I'm unassigning this one for now in case someone wants to explore or has an idea to fix this.

[ellatrix]

The custom scrolling behaviour does not work at all currently: #67303 (comment)

[ellatrix]

So it's not a matter of increasing a threshold but a matter of restoring it