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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. Make it an option, PLEASE!!! by chalsall · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Please, please, PLEASE make this an option, not a full removal.

    I will stop using GNOME if this ability is fully removed.

    1. Re:Make it an option, PLEASE!!! by Aguazul2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I will stop using GNOME if this ability is fully removed.

      I think that is what they want. They have succeeded in driving me away to XFCE, which is actually quite good and does everything I need. To me GNOME is like a solar flare, quite impressive at first, but then fading out as it gets higher and higher from the surface of the sun. They are in a little bubble floating off into space, becoming more and more irrelevant to normal Linux users. Maybe they will meet an alien civilization some day who will understand what they are trying to do.

  2. Re:GNOME: We don't want Microsoft to have all the by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isn't this (middle clicks) at least partly because of Wayland? I thought that this middle click thing was X11-specific. You know, the PRIMARY versus CLIPBOARD selections etc. Does Wayland even have these notions (seeing as it doesn't pretend to be an operating system)?

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