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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!
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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.....
My mac only has one button, you insensitive clod!
They don't remove features, they just move them to somewhere less convenient.....
As much as i applaud Apple for finding homes for physically challenged mice, that doesn't mean the rest of the mice should have to wear sandbags.
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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A lot of devices become incredibly annoying with Jim Beam hand.
brandelf -t FreeBSD