In essence, despite the disparaging comments and implications that the slashdot forum was wrong, GNOME designers are looking at replacing middle click paste with “something better.”
Why obfuscate? Why not just admit that designers are looking at doing just that but will make sure that tweak tool will override and this change to gtk+ won’t impact other environments. I have to imagine there would have been much less brouhaha.
And as this is only my second comment on lwn.net despite having lurked corbet’s excellent writing for a dozen years you might doubt my persona (which shouldn’t actually change the validity of my reasoning *cough*). I would be Eric Fitton the math teacher and owner of efitton.net.