It's FOSSYour thoughts on these proposals? 🤨
https://itsfoss.com/news/gnome-firefox-middle-click-paste-removal/
Gepardi53
Inaction FigureI use the middle click paste all the time, and I would miss it. Since I use Plasma, I’m sure there would be a setting to turn it back on. Maybe there already is?
The middle click paste doesn’t use the same Clipboard as Ctrl-C, does it? It doesn’t seem to, but I’ve never really looked into it.
Tasherca@inaction_figure @itsfoss
as for me, over the past 3 years, the gnome developers have done something useful, and yes, because this feature is not really needed at all, or it should be turned off.
as for me, over the past 3 years, the gnome developers have done something useful, and yes, because this feature is not really needed at all, or it should be turned off.
Carl 
Correct - C-c uses a different buffer, which is cool, you can have 2 things set up to paste - one with the C-v and one with middle-click.
Fabian Transchel@inaction_figure @itsfoss No, it uses the last text that was marked.
I'm super furious about this from GNOME. It's like they really lost touch with people that want to be productive instead of looking at their desktop as a boring, frozen MacOS copy.
radon@ftranschel @inaction_figure @itsfoss they were visibly out of touch way back when they claimed good file dialog is not something people actually want.
Phil@inaction_figure @itsfoss Since you use plasma, *these* specific considerations aren't going to affect you in the first place.
There *are* similar contemplations going on in KDE, as some over there also think that middle click paste is a problematic default and potential security hazard.
But there is no overt merge request or the like yet, just talk as part of other issues in the KDE bugtracker.
However, even if those come to fruition, with either DE there'll be a GUI to turn this back on.
MonokaThere are already at least two disussion strings about this pull request to disable copy&paste by default:
xejt@itsfoss I'm glad that the option is simply turned off by default with the ability to enable it via CLI or with Tweaks. The author makes a decent use case argument and I don't know how many people would actually benefit but it seems solid. If this was simply to make Gnome more Mac OS like I'd simply question why? I just feel like if the former rationale was the reason, everybody has better things to work on. If this helps solve a real problem, OK. Not a big deal.
Infrapink (he/his/him)@itsfoss
I am not a fan. I use middle-click frequently; there are times when it's just faster than Ctrl+(Shift+)C/X/V.
If people find it confusing, make it an option during setup.
Who Let The Dogs Out 🐾I'm amazed at the number of people who haven't bothered to learn the basics of the operating system they're using.
The difference between the `clipboard`, `primary` and `secondary` clipboards is the very beginning of learning Linux.
Maybe clipboard extenders can help in this situation.
Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️🌈
Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️🌈 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image The whole situation⁰ around the mouse paste easter egg¹ is so, so ridiculous. Let's make it into a meme! :neocat_laugh_sweat: #GNOME #Meme #X #easterEgg
lebout2canap ⏚@itsfoss With a clickfinger behavior¹ configured touchpad (very practical for using both hands alternately) it can also prove problematic: between pressing with three fingers, and sliding three fingers, an error quickly arrived.
¹ https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/clickpad-softbuttons.html#clickfinger-behavior
Quien Sabe@itsfoss Thank goodness I have switched to Cosmic.
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Paradox
Nishant Neeraj Agnihotri@itsfoss I wonder how much firefox use drops after AI integeration.