Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 04:44 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Gnome is emulating the Android interface citation needed? -- Marco Scannadinari ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: > > Hello Allan, > > I'm asking you from the position of being a linux user that had used > middle click for years, 10 or more. > > How often do you use this functionality in your daily use of gnome? > please answer honestly and I want a straight

Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:44:17AM -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > As Gnome is emulating the Android interface, you should know that if I > wanted a Android interface to Linux, I would certainly go the Android > route.    This is going highly offtopic. Android?!? People really care about the

Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
All this contraversy   Because I come from a Windows background, and because I was developing software before the mouse gained the centre wheel, with the tilt and press actions, I am more brainwashed into using the right mouse button for the paste function. What should be remembered by developers

Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:34:49PM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > How often do you use this functionality in your daily use of gnome? > please answer honestly and I want a straight answer, don't give me a > marketing answer. I do regularly mix middle click copy / paste with ctrl+c/v copy / paste. Ch

Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Luis Menina
Le 26/09/2013 11:34, Ionut Biru a écrit : > The proposed designed is broken from start. Middle click should > never change its behavior. Please stop the noise and let this thread die. It has already been said that there is no proposed design at the moment. Once there's one, the discussion will tak

Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Ionut Biru
On 09/26/2013 11:21 AM, Allan Day wrote: > Ray Morris wrote: >>> Not be be a jerk, but can you seriously post that with a straight face? ... >>> didn't turn up anything about the middle mouse button until last week >>> and that bugzilla has several people begging that the behavior not be >>> cha

Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

2013-09-26 Thread Allan Day
Ray Morris wrote: >> Not be be a jerk, but can you seriously post that with a straight face? ... >> didn't turn up anything about the middle mouse button until last week >> and that bugzilla has several people begging that the behavior not be >> changed. I don't see how that can be considered a