Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kdelibs-3.1-0.beta2.11mdk

[andre]

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 16:42, Guy.Bormann wrote:
> On 30 Oct 2002, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 12:13, Guy.Bormann wrote:
> > > > Linux you just highlight and middle click.  And yes
> > >
> > >   ^^^^^^
> > >    what has Linux got to do with it??????!!! You meant KDE?
> >
> > No, actually, I think he was right. From my understanding, the concept
> > of middle-click pasting in *nix OSes predates KDE. Anyone know for sure?
>
> No, this is X behaviour (and gpm on Linux) in combination with
> three-button mice, common hardware until Microsoft started pushing
> two-button mice (i.e. one more than one-button Mac mice, "We have
> more!"). It has nothing to do with Linux per se. This predates both KDE
> and Linux.
>
twm has this behaviour so it claiming that it was normal when linus wasn't 
even thinking about linux