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bymarkdavis ( 642305 ) writes:
>"Both GNOME and Firefox are considering disabling middle-click paste by default, arguing it's a confusing, accident-prone X11 relic that dumps clipboard contents without warning."
PLEASE DO NOT. How about having an environment variable and LETTING THE USER DECIDE. I use middle-click pasting all the time. PLEASE DO NOT use the stupid gsettings stuff. I don't use GNOME, and that stuff is annoying and confusing.
And this crap Firefox does with single clicking in the URL bar selecting the ENTIRE LINE is
byAnonymous Coward writes:
>"Both GNOME and Firefox are considering disabling middle-click paste by default, arguing it's a confusing, accident-prone X11 relic that dumps clipboard contents without warning."
PLEASE DO NOT. How about having an environment variable and LETTING THE USER DECIDE. I use middle-click pasting all the time. PLEASE DO NOT use the stupid gsettings stuff. I don't use GNOME, and that stuff is annoying and confusing.
And this crap Firefox does with single clicking in the URL bar selecting the ENTIRE LINE is beyond annoying. PLEASE LET US CONTROL THAT AS WELL!!!
what do you think "disabling...by default" means in the text you literally quoted? That's "letting the user decide".
Now as others have pointed out, it may be a first step towards "Well, very few people are enabling this so we're just going to remove it entirely now" and that seems like a valid fear.
But if you want to voice concerns, try to at least understand what is happening first. (I know, a novel concept in today's outrage economy)
byBert64 ( 520050 ) writes:
what do you think "disabling...by default" means in the text you literally quoted? That's "letting the user decide".
No, changing the default is trying to push the user to make a specific choice. The next step is often to force them.
The option can already be disabled, the users already have a choice, there is no need to change the default.
by_merlin ( 160982 ) writes:
You could argue that having it on by default hurts Linux adoption because most people are used to GUI applications not replacing the contents of the clipboard just by highlighting text and they're used to middle click raising windows or invoking fast scrolling in web browsers. Making the defaults more like what most people are familiar with could help ease their transition to Linux.
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