On 12 November 2015 at 14:59, Ray Strode <halfline@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Jared K. Smith > <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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] 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. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
