Am 20.11.2015 um 15:34 schrieb Ian Malone:
On 12 November 2015 at 14:59, Ray Strode <halfline(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Jared K. Smith
> <jsmith(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> I've been testing Wayland myself since around the F22 time period, but
>> "middle click paste" and the occasional odd bug keep annoying me enough
to
>> go back to X. Can you elaborate on the plans for supporting middle click to
>> paste, or is it considered a relic of a bygone era and I should try to
>> unlearn?
>
> Plans for middle-click paste are tracked here:
>
>
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelection
>
This would actually be quite a productivity killer for me, not just
the lack of middle-button paste[1], but also removing a separate
copy-buffer. It is seriously useful to be able to carry around
multiple pieces of text, particularly if you're going to need to
keeping one and change the other (or working on two things at once).
+1
[1] Apparently middle mouse buttons are rare. I'm in an office
surrounded by them and them only computers I've used without one for
roughly the past decade are my old laptop (now moved on, but had
emulated middle click, maybe the wayland developers were unaware of
this too), and other people's mac laptops, which have their own
'easter egg' combinations of one, two, three(?) finger clicks and
drags
"there are few middle mouse buttons in the world" is just laughable in
2015, every single wheel-mouse for many years supports just pressing the
wheel and most these days even let you scroll left-right
if that would have been written by a Apple user 10 years ago, well, but
now even the "you don't need more than one mouse button" apple fanboys
truned to "a mouse without a wheel where you can scroll up-down *and*
left-right is unusable"