Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

[Dave Johansen <davejohansen gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:

Tomasz Torcz <tomek pipebreaker pl> wrote:
>> You're making an argument about simplification in a thread about
>> middle-click, but the designs for what might happen to middle-click
>> have neither been finalised nor publicised. I think it would be better
>> to wait until the text selection designs have been documented before
>> we discuss it. :)
>
>   I think ”have not been publicised” is the exact pain point of design
> process.  Wider community has no insight into design until it's
> finished.  And it's too late for a meaningful input at that point.

The designs haven't been publicised because they are not sufficiently
developed, and as such have not been documented. Once they are there
will be opportunity for discussion.

I think that that's the whole complaint about this sort of change. It's a major change to a core functionality and it's been designed "behind closed doors"? The complaint (or at least mine) isn't that this sort of change is happening but that it's being done without any input from users (or in this case in blatant disregard of the input from users, i.e. several of the comments on this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665193 ).