On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 15:40 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 11/25/2015 03:25 PM, drago01 wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Adam Williamson > > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 14:34 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > > > > [1] Apparently middle mouse buttons are rare. I'm in an office > > > This seems an odd assertion [...] > > Its not odd ... its plain wrong. > > > > I think Ian meant to say that the mice WITHOUT middle button are rare. > The quote above continues on like this: > > 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 > > Am I right, Ian? No. The wiki page explaining the GNOME-on-Wayland approach to middle-button paste - https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelection - makes this claim as one of the reasons why it wasn't initially planned for inclusion in Wayland: "Additionally, reasons against keeping it: the middle click is a hard-to-discover easter egg there are few middle mouse buttons in the world" Ian was, I think with reason, questioning the second of those. I was pointing out that those are only a couple of *supplementary* reasons, so it's not really worth spending much time disputing that assertion, even though it does seem like an odd one. The primary reasons why Wayland wasn't initially going to implement a PRIMARY selection mechanism are given earlier in the page: "Among the arguments for eschewing the PRIMARY selection were: It makes it easy to unintentionally paste passwords, snippets of private conversations and other non-public information, into online communication. security concerns with unexpected data stealing if the mere act of selecting a text fragment makes it available to all running applications" and it goes on to propose that the primary selection should in fact be implemented. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
