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Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long
An anonymous reader writes "Select to copy and middle-click to paste. That's very convenient usability feature associated with UNIX graphical environments. But it is confusing for new users, so the ability to middle-click paste was briefly removed from GNOME 3.10. It was restored few days later, but with clear message: middle-click paste will be permanently removed from next GNOME version." I hope that "we'll defer this change until the next cycle" also means that it's getting re-thought, rather than just delayed.
The GNOME guys are just jealous of Microsoft taking away the user interface elements that people were used to and they want to show that Open Source can do just a good a job of screwing up an interface as those big-bad corporate types!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Three button mouse, how quaint.
If I ever build a killbot, it will be activated by the phrase "confusing to users."
Are you sure you want to go with NT though? I heard that Windows 98 is better for games.....
They don't remove features, they just move them to somewhere less convenient.....
They should just remove CTRL + C and CTRL + V as well while they are at it. Not only is it not very discoverable, but it also requires you to use the keyboard. Drag and Drop is so much better and obviously the correct way to do copy paste.
There is one problem: for historic reasons, most distributions install Gnome by default. This needs to be fixed, badly.
Well, it seems the folks over at GNOME are trying as hard as they can to get it fixed...
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They're breaking Gnome, not Linux. The nice thing about Linux is that you can configure everything exactly how you want it. Maybe try MATE?
Yeah, I know Gnome isn't all of Linux, but it has a lot of influence and a lot of popular programs are tied into the infrastructure. This is why so many programs seem to have forgotten the concept of cwd recently.
Other than that, I'll stick with FVWM.
A direct descendant of TWM!
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you realize that reverting that change would be a simple matter of selecting one line and m...
oh hell no...
give them a little pop-up saying "hey, there's a faster way to do that, do you want to try?" and give them a basic tutorial on how to do so, ending with an option to turn off the feature if they wish.
In other words, a context-sensitive help system like "Clippy."