justsoup 
Why in the world is GNOME disabling middle click? That feels like such a tiny innocuous change with no real bearing on anything? Like, that just messes up users' workflows that use it for no reason at all, and since GNOME is the default desktop on a lot of distros, this will mess up non-technical users and they'll file bugs. I don't want to deal with this from a distro's perspective. I know you can re-enable the option... *from GNOME tweaks*, which they don't support anymore...
Victoria 🏳️⚧️@justsoup non technical users do not know of middle click. And they do not go to gitlab to report bugs. And reasoining litereally in links you linked
@tragivictoria Most non-technical users will just go back to an OS that "works" because they'll assume their mouse suddenly not working is either a hardware failure or a bug.
And, yes, non-technical users know about middle-click. This isn't some hidden feature that nobody uses. Now, there are no sources backing up whether they do or don't, that would be a good idea to collect feedback on and iterate based on that. Entirely slashing a feature at a whim is a very bad decision.
Tywèle@justsoup @tragivictoria The feature is not being removed entirely. It just won't be the default anymore.
@Tywele @tragivictoria That's why I said disabling instead of removing. I know it isn't being removed, but I think relegating it to dconf effectively removes it for any sane user.
@tragivictoria @Tywele Moving it to settings makes sense. I feel like this is the equivalent of tap-to-click vs physically clicking, which already has a setting.