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GNOME 3.10 ReleasedGNOME 3.10 ReleasedPosted Sep 26, 2013 22:43 UTC (Thu) by mcatanzaro (guest, #93033)In reply to: GNOME 3.10 Released by dskoll Parent article: GNOME 3.10 Released
I (could be wrong but) highly doubt it will be removed. It cannot remain a default because it's unintuitive and initially confusing, and GNOME is strongly focused on simplicity and new users. But the designers are well aware that failure to provide the classic behavior (my guess: probably through a toggle in Tweak Tool) would disappoint tons of users.
Which is not to say that GNOME doesn't have a feature-removal problem; I just don't think middle-click paste specifically is going to wind up a victim of it. My guess is that you'll discover another actually-removed feature to actually miss.
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GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 27, 2013 1:20 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
middle click to paste is at least as intuitive as knowing that you have to move the mouse to the top left corner, or that the menus at the top of the screen change depending on which window you last clicked on
those things are only 'simple' if you expect them.
and middle-click-paste at least as discoverable as any of those things (and trivial to have the menu item for paste say that middle click will do it as well if you are really worried.
I would also say it's less confusing initially as well, at least it is unless you have been trained by something else to think that middle click does something different (the firefox behaviour of trying to go to the 'url' if you middle click anywhere in a window that's not a text entry box is a good example of surprising behaviour.
right-click-paste as done by putty is a good example of surprising behaviour, because right click is used for lots of other things normally.
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 27, 2013 16:45 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
> those things are only 'simple' if you expect them.
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Hi, this is a mouse. It has three buttons:
The Select button, the Paste button, and the Menu button.
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This is how the mouse was introduced to me in the late 1980s. I don't know how can it be made any simpler than that.
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 30, 2013 18:52 UTC (Mon) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]
[Having just used select-and-middle-click to select this text to quote...]
> right-click-paste as done by putty is a good example of surprising behaviour, because right click is used for lots of other things normally.
The very first thing I do when installing putty is change the settings to paste with middle-click!
Easter egg my ***.
shift-Insert pastes too Posted Oct 4, 2013 11:11 UTC (Fri) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link]
> and middle-click-paste at least as discoverable as any of those things
> (and trivial to have the menu item for paste say that middle click will do > it as well if you are really worried.
And let's not forget that paste can also be done with shift-Insert
This also avoids use of the mouse, of course.
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 27, 2013 3:03 UTC (Fri) by Neowin (guest, #93001) [Link]
Terminal cannot remain a default because it's unintuitive and initially confusing, and GNOME is strongly focused on simplicity and new users.
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