Gnome 3.16 Touchpad controls - Disable when typing

Hi guys
I'm running an old Asus Zenbook UX21E with an Elantech touchpad
I recently installed Gnome 3.16
I went to Settings > Mouse and touchpad
and much to my horror the option to disable touchpad when typing had vanished.
Any suggestions on why the setting is no longer present or some workarounds to implement it elsewhere?

Vinibo wrote:
I might have something!
The key doesn't exist anymore in the Gnome registry.
Here is a command to activate the feature : dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad/disable-while-typing true
Basically, it will create the same key as in Gnome 3.14 and will set it to true.
It does, but even on a fresh login has no effect (for me, at least) in Gnome 3.16 with xf86-input-libinput installed. Apparently it's a bug.

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