Middle click paste is a very useful feature for a lot of people, but new linux users are not those people.
I personally switched two years ago, and got several people I know to switch too. Everyone I know who switched (including me) was confused by middle click paste.
It’s a hard to intuitively understand action (took me several months until I understood it took the selection for some reason) that is very easy to trigger accidentally, and that duplicates existing functionality.
The people who like it already know it exists, and could just toggle it on.
Of course, on distros not aimed at beginners, like say, debian, it should remain the default.
No, middle click paste has nothing to do with middle mouse scroll, or middle click open-in-new-window. They’re independent functions, and all 3 can work together just fine. Disabling middle click paste has absolutely no upside that I can think of. Unless they’re going to replace middle click paste with something more useful, I don’t understand this push.
He means panning. The fact you didn’t understand that kinda highlights the very problem at hand.
Middle mouse scrolling is both the mouse wheel for up and down and for panning. The copy paste function breaks panning in some situations which is very annoying and inconsistent
I’ve never had to look for disabling middle click paste because it broke panning or orbiting in 2d or 3d canvas. Same thing for games, middle click works just fine there.
I only use a few applications where middle click panning makes sense, and it works fine, middle click paste has no effect. If some applications don’t handle panning properly, that’s a bug in those applications. Why on earth should we disable a useful feature system-wide so a couple buggy applications can get away with shoddy code?
From what I’ve read about the issue middle mouse click to paste overwrites normal expected behaviour in some applications, and is exactly the issue I’m having. What’s wrong with Ctrl+V? It’s universally known and beloved. Is it a “one hand below the desk”-issue?
Applications can override the behavior. I have several applications I use on a daily basis that use the middle mouse for panning and they work fine. If other applications don’t, that’s their own fault. Forcing users to disable a useful feature system-wide so a couple lazy applications can get away with buggy code is not a reasonable solution.