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Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long

Posted by timothy on from the sometimes-it's-hard-to-love-you-gnome dept.

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.

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  1. GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the FUN by CajunArson · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. Re:three? by robthebloke · · Score: 5, Funny

    My mac only has one button, you insensitive clod!

  3. Re:FUCK OFF by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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