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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (8 children)

WTF?

And the reason is bullshit.
User confusion... You maybe get confused once or twice, after that you just start using it as it is incredibly convenient.

Only confusion happens when I have to use Windows and it doesn't work any more...

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    The middle mouse is important for browsing. I understand and see how that can cause issues. This is not about Windows, it is about the browser and this specific feature.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Aren't those different elements?

    (Text) Input element - pastes with middle click Hyperlinks - open in new tab "Empty space"/background/text - maybe use for the scroll thingy, I've never used

    I don't really see the problem here, or do I miss something?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think you can use it for side-scrolling or page-moving(???) or so.
    Somewhat exotic, I don't think I know anyone who uses the middle button for anything other than the standard mouse-wheel vertical scrolling, which has nothing to do with pressing the middle button.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Due to the way my browser is laid out I do need the scroll right-left, I miss a chunk of info on the right of some pages making me use the ity bity scroll bar at the bottom of the page. I did stop trying after my 3rd time in a month clicking the wheel now I just don't do it. A toggle would be better than changing an action so many of you have ingrained, I can't see myself ever getting used to this action as I prefer to hot key my way through copy/paste/etc. Don't mess with the old guard to gain new users, you will only lose

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I mean, middle click seems to open links in tabs fine here, even though I have paste on it as well.

    So I don't see that there is a problem there? Except in the use case of side-scrolling by clicking the middle button - is that a thing?

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    • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm gonna be honest, I don't like middle-mouse paste because I use the middle mouse for too much other stuff, and because it goes alongside select to copy, which tends to overwrite the paste buffer at the least convenient time.

    But turning it off (by default) because it's not how Windows does it is fucking stupid. It's exactly the kind of stupid decision GNOME has been making for decades, and why I no longer use it. I just hope it won't be yet another subtle difference in behaviour between gtk and Qt apps.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    which tends to overwrite the paste buffer

    Isn't it a different buffer?

    At least on my KDE system I can use Ctrl-C and select-middle-mouse in parallel without them overwriting each other.

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    • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    just make an option to toggle it off?

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Give me a setting I can change, one setting, that will turn it to autoscroll system wide, and I'll be happy.

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    GNOME sucks

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