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| ▲ | monooso 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| > GNOME dictates onto users what the developers think the users should use or have. I find that not acceptable. Every operating system (or DE) does that. Hell, every piece of software does that. They're all just a bunch of opinions wrapped in a user interface. Some may provide more opportunities to change the defaults, but those defaults still remain. |
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| ▲ | immibis 5 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is like, the least bad thing GNOME have ever done. Middle-click pasting makes no logical sense and only exists as a holdover from before copy-paste conventions were established. Nobody would design it this way today. |
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| ▲ | kstenerud 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I once watched a co-worker completely bork a customer system by accidentally middle-clicking while moving his mouse after copying an ls -l of /usr/bin (where pretty much everything was a symlink to the real executables in /bin). Yeah, he shouldn't have been logged in as root, but the point remains that middle-mouse paste can be extremely dangerous and fat-finger-prone. |
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| ▲ | networkadmin 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I love Linux, but the cut and paste situation is really terrible. The middle mouse paste isn't a problem for me--it's that there are two separate "clipboard" buffers, which just causes all sorts of problems. | | |
| ▲ | doubled112 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Having two separate clipboard buffers is a feature I intentionally use. | | | |
| ▲ | garciansmith an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can unify the middle mouse selection and the regular clipboard in KDE if you wish. Personally I find keeping them separate very convenient. | | |
| ▲ | jolmg an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | There are a number of DE-independent clipboard managers that can do that as well as other features, like keeping a clipboard history so you can copy in series then paste in series, or having keyboard shortcuts transform the clipboard contents by way of a command, so you can e.g. copy some multi-line text then paste it as a single line joined by spaces. | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I use "autocutsel" to synchronize the cut buffer and clipboard in X. Not sure what Wayland might need to do this or if it even has a similar concept. I love select to copy and middle-click to paste. https://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel/ |
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| ▲ | squigz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This can be said about literally any software? And as GP points out, it's not "dictating what you can use or have" - you can turn it back on. |
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| ▲ | szundi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | marcosdumay 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| GNOME is doing something right for a change and fixing a common source of security issues. If you like it, just keep the behavior enabled. |
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