Microsoft and GNOME don’t seem like great examples to imitate when it comes to UI, but whatever, I can change the default.
So that’s fine, unless they hide it in about:config somewhere, wait a year or two, find out from telemetry that not many users ever discover it, and then remove it completely because they still think that having fewer options is better. If they do that yet again, with this feature in particular, and if the librewolf people don’t fix it, I might just give up web browsers and go back to using telnet to port 80.
It’s odd to call middle click to paste a dumpster fire when the Windows console will use a modal behaviour for right click - by default it’s paste (and there are certain situations where you can only reliably paste with right click), unless you have text selected, then copy that text (and deselect it). By comparison middle click is pretty damn predictable.
I wonder however how much of the complaints come from laptop users with oversized touchpads who are frustrated by accidental clicks while typing. But it’d be odd that only middle click is singled out then.
This has been such a weird annoyance for me. Since I primarily use a Thinkpad with a track point, I would find myself middle click pasting randomly while scrolling through code or whatever
Isn’t it just a setting to disable it?
I really like it, and hate when I need ctrl c or right click for context menu. Especially when in some cases depending on where you right click the highlighting changes and you need to reselect the text.
It doesn’t change the fact that it’s a really weird default. How many users actually want this on, vs don’t care/don’t want it?
If you don’t know the answer to the question, than the first statement isn’t a fact.
I guess in the current wave of users abandoning windows, its a new feature that is unexpected, and could cause issues for them.
Maybe when I started playing in linux in the late 90s it was a wierd feature to me. Although, I’m not even sure I had a middle mouse wheel then. But it very quickly became second nature, once I discovered it and I hated when I had to use a windows machine and lost access to it.
Turning off every useful feature that linux has over windows, and making them all opt-in just to make it more windows like seems like a backwards step.
I haven’t been able to find a global setting. Afaik, it’s baked into x11? The only way I saw to disable it on forums was totally disabling middle click, which I do not want either
I was able to disable it on KDE somewhere in settings (would try to find it rn but I’m not home), but that was pre-6.1 so I hope it isn’t back. For me it was mainly an issue when trying to pane a view, which depending on the game i played before I’ll try to do by holding middle mouse button. Great fun pasting a random image onto the retro miro board on accident…
Not sure about other DEs, but it seems likely it’s possible somehow.
I understand and kinda agree with the reasoning, even though I love middle click paste. At least they’re saying there’ll be a setting to re enable it, the first thing I do on a fresh install is install Tweaks/Refine to rebind caps lock as ctrl so clicking an extra toggle wouldn’t be the biggest issue.
@cm0002 middle click was the best thing that ever happened to me in my computing journey…
It really is such bullshit.
Did they also disable ctrl+q to immediately quit Firefox? Right next to ctrl+w, which people use all the time?
