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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@ttrpg.network to c/linux@programming.dev

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Some projects keep surprising me with their “solutions,” and this is one of those cases. A proposal under review by developers from GNOME and Mozilla could change how middle-mouse-button paste behaves on Linux and other Unix-like systems.

The discussions, visible in Mozilla’s Phabricator revision D277804 and a linked GNOME gsettings-desktop-schemas merge request, focus on disabling the traditional primary selection paste by default.

Mozilla proposes changing the default behavior of the Firefox browser on Unix builds so that pressing the middle mouse button no longer pastes text by default. The author of the revision frames the current behavior as a source of confusion and accidental pastes, especially when users press the middle button without expecting the clipboard contents to be inserted into text fields.

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[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this feels like a breaking change akin to macOS changing the Command key to bringing up a start menu because it confuses Windows users. platforms have differences, and this one is actually so tiny and inconsequential it feels like any ameliorated confusion will be offset by confusion of people that rely on it and use it. is this really the barrier to adoption?

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lets just make every OS the exact same so that we don't "confuse the users." That will work out so well.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know how you could possibly look at Gnome and think they're trying to be the same as every other OS.

They're seemingly the only one with the balls to move away from the WinUX way of doing things.

[–] sorrowl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Finally! Middle click paste annoyed me so much when I first started using Linux, it should not be on by default imo.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Keep this and give me three finer drag

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago

Good choice I think, way too sensitive to just work like that

Did you know that ShitDows doesnt support middle mouse button for anything? XD it opens the start menu like all the time

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