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what middle button doeswhat middle button doesPosted Nov 10, 2011 4:42 UTC (Thu) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138)In reply to: what middle button does by tialaramex Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)
I love the way your tour-de-force display of technical expertise is somehow appearing to cast a shadow on the position of the poster you're replying to. Or maybe I'm seeing ghosts?
In any case, I don't see how you added (refined, clarified) anything to the core thrust of his message.
And yes, I'm absolutely sure, that the details of PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD uses in Gnome 3 are technically impeccable.
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what middle button does Posted Nov 22, 2011 0:40 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
It's very common that people are annoyed about something because they thought they understood it, but in fact they didn't, and so now something has happened which they perceive as a disruption to the natural order of things, but in fact they just didn't understand in the first place.
Language Log provides a long stream of examples of people complaining of this or that "mistake" or "modernism" in English when in fact the supposed "error" can be traced back to impeccable English writers from centuries previous.
Most of the time it doesn't help, people go along believing that they're right and the whole world is wrong. But once in a while, just often enough to give hope, someone says "Oh, I see, how embarrassing" and learns a little bit more about the world.
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