• Zak@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Middle click to paste the X PRIMARY selection predates Blender.

    Yes, I do know how old Blender is.

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      3 days ago

      Right,

      But just because it was a standard doesn’t mean it made sense as a standard. So when 99% of applications don’t care to adopt the standard, it really only makes sense to let the application space decide what to do with middle click and to fall back on the user’s system configuration if it’s unspecified (which can still be paste if you want it to be imo)

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        3 days ago

        If 99% of applications that run on *nix desktops didn’t want to accept middle-click to paste text where that’s an operation that makes sense, I would agree with you. I do not believe that to be the case.