@publicvoit I don’t know why you would ever want paste actions bound to the mouse like that. What do you use it for?

@taylorhadden it's been the default in the X window system for a long time and some people have come to expect & rely on it

@ryanprior IMHO, this feels like a similar thing to how Blender had totally alien selection behavior compared to everything else before switching. Most computer users have never used X. Most computer users don't expect the middle mouse button to do anything related to the clipboard. If GNOME wants to be intuitive to use for the majority of computer users, it probably wants to avoid this particular interaction.