On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 09:44:52AM +1200, gordon cooper wrote: > 1a & 1b also 2a & 2b. I wold not expect anything to happen. > > With my present mouse, which has a fairly light touch, I would > prefer things to stay as they are - nothing. The scroll and middle > button are combined and as I tend to scroll often, another function > (as happens in another application where middle button activates > paste) could be annoying. or else I develop a lighter touch.
You might want to disable middle-click on your mouse if it leads to annoying behavior in more than one program (note that middle-button for pasting the most recent selection is pretty common). That said, I'm sure there are others who have the same opinion. Nonetheless, because there is precedent (i.e. other programs implement similar behavior, see below), I think we will implement some behavior. After thinking about the feedback, I think that the most reasonable approach is to: 1. close the tab on middle-click 2. do nothing when middle-clicking the blank space The main reason for (1) is simply because Chromium and Firefox do it. And although I can understand why some might be hesitant because of an errant middle-click, my guess is that it does not happen too often, and when it does happen there is no bad consecuence (Paul will be surprised that the universe does not implode): if you have unsaved data, you will be prompted just as you would be if you clicked on the "x". And if you don't have unsaved data, it might be confusing how one of the tabs disappeared but you will be able to reopen it without any data loss. Note that (1) was requested here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10288 (2) was more up in the air because Firefox opens a new tab, and Chromium does nothing. Further, as Shay pointed out, we don't have a "new document" button like in Firefox and Chromium. However, you can double-click in the blank area to open a tab; and further judgingi from the responses it seems like "nothing" is a reasonable choice. Thank you all for the feedback! I will try to poll lyx-users more often. I always get good feedback here. The only thing is that I usually work on minor features so it is not a very exciting thing to give feedback on. But as long as I get a few bites, I'll keep fishing. Scott
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