Joachim Noreiko wrote: > --- Tomasz Janowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> GNOME has the utterly >>> stupid middle-click paste feature which means for >> most users, that the >>> 'select something, then paste to replace it' idiom >> simply doesn't >>> work. So pasting URLs is likely not very common. >> How would the middle-click "buffer" know, that the >> last marking is for >> replacement only, not to be remembered in order to >> paste it somewhere else? > > True. But it does mean that URL pasting with the mouse > is not really useful. The URL box usually has a URL in > there already that you have to select to paste over.
But there is still right button context menu. And one still can paste with middle click when opening new window (tab) (since tab arrival in browser world rather common thing to do). I don't think that there is real value in informing people that inserting address isn't sufficient to go to this address. Someone already pointed that out - you only have to learn _once_ and it's not a hard lesson. And users are rather familiar with "enter" button making things like confirming, so I don't see how would they be dragged to "go" button. The tooltip aren't exactly a solution, nor are wizards. And maybe instead of thinking why to remove sth. it would be better to think who might need this feature (think grandma), and what habit does it force on user (searching enter button on keyboard _every_time_ one inserts an address, even when he/she did it with mouse). I would understand, if there was problem with space on the location bar, but I doubt it's the reason behind this discussion. And I don't use this button, because there is "paste and go" which does the job well. regards _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
