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GNOME 3.10 ReleasedGNOME 3.10 ReleasedPosted Sep 27, 2013 14:50 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)In reply to: GNOME 3.10 Released by ebassi Parent article: GNOME 3.10 Released
The problem is not you just going
> smug hipsterish neckbeards
(which I might just as well be, I don't know)
But when you call a feature an "easter egg" (middle-click and multiple selections are useful for people that cut and paste a lot of text), you are just being specious.
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GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 29, 2013 14:38 UTC (Sun) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link] I'm really not being "specious": middle click to paste the PRIMARY selection is an Easter egg for "experienced users" (whatever that may mean, or whoever those may be), as the X11 clipboard specification puts it. I suggest looking at the various discussions that led to the specification being formalised.
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 29, 2013 14:57 UTC (Sun) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
>> specious. (adj.) 1. apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
The clipboard specification you linked is not X11's, but Freedesktop.org's... which was discussed and formalized more or less twenty to thirty years after ICCCM was discussed and formalized. So, yes, you were not being specious: you were plagiarizing someone being specious... :)
As I wrote in another post, when I was introduced to mice in the 1980s, that's what was said to me: "this button selects, this pastes, and this opens a context-sensitive menu". This is the simplest possible way to use a mouse, especially if you copy and paste a lot of text in your workflow.
Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V came many years after.
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 29, 2013 18:26 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Quite. Things are not "easter eggs" if they are used by the overwhelming majority of users of that environment, and widely documented. Middle-click to paste is *not* an easter egg. Heck, it was the first thing I ever learned about X, before I even learned how to start an xterm!
It's culturally transmitted knowledge, sure. So is the do { ... } while(0) pattern for statement-like macros in C. Maybe we should remove that too?
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