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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com)
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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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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

They're still doing something bad: changing the status quo.

I'll be the nitpicker and point out that changing the status quo doesn't necessarily need to be a bad thing. Every good thing ever has basically been a change from the status quo. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well, true, that was probably poorly worded.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Perhaps a bit. But I agree with your sentiment besides that. Hopefully we won't have "the year of the Linux Desktop" as some sort of hard ambition, where we will reach a point where every OS just conforms and converges to the same paradigms, like we basically have on our phones by now.

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