Mastodawn

Hot take: good riddance. I dislike the middle click thing. Trips me up all the time as someone who accidentally clicks it when scrolling.

I think the right move is to make this (undoubtedly useful to some) behavior opt-in, not opt-out.

A lot of the gripes I see are just people being mad because GNOME makes choices they don't like. I don't understand why people write like this about GNOME, if you don't like it don't use it, your emotions make you look petty, etc etc.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/gnome_middle_click_paste/

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger

Opinion: Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism'

The Register

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now it's veronicaexplains.net Jan 9

The way the article is written. The way the comments talk about it.

Why do people make it sound like GNOME is some sort of secret cabal of Linux haters?

It's a freaking desktop environment, they have every right to build it however they want, and you have every right to use something different. There's zero reason to get emotionally charged about it.

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now it's veronicaexplains.net Jan 9

Anyway, if you like GNOME and their design concepts, you're awesome and totally a valid user of Linux.

Sick of the absurd nonsense that says otherwise.

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now it's veronicaexplains.net Jan 9

In this period, in this timeline, at this moment, maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't talk about *desktop environment design disagreements* like they're causing deep emotional harm?

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Ethin Probst Jan 10

@vkc Agreed. Although I wish wayland actually cared about accessibility

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Cameron Bosch Jan 10

@draeand They do. Honestly, the X11 accessibility features barely were working and were on life support after Sun got bought out by Oracle, and never were amazing because of a lack of developers doing it or funds to support making these features better.

Hopefully, Wayland developers can make Wayland accessibility better than X11 ever could be, especially given how bad Apple took it with Liquid Glass on their 26 release of their OSs.

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Ethin Probst

@cameron_bosch I hope the situation improves, it's just hard to be all that hopeful about it when they want the ecosystem to be so fragmented and obvious things that should be a part of the core spec aren't