Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted

[Ray Morris <webmastersguide2000 yahoo com>]

> Not be be a jerk, but can you seriously post that with a straight face? ... didn't turn up anything about 
> the middle mouse button until last week
> and that bugzilla has several people begging that the behavior not be changed. I don't see how that can be 
> considered a "proposal" or "discussion"

The bugzilla commit completely disabled middle-yank, so yes that appears to be a proposal to change the 
behavior.
It was temporarily reverted with the message "we'll defer this change until the next cycle". The way that's 
worded, it sounds like it's not just a proposal to do so, it's a decision to do so.

According to the record, what we had was a commit that actually eliminated the functionality (by default), 
followed by _discussion_ (Mathias' word) between Mathias, Allan and Jakup to delay it. The committer certainly
considered it a "discussion", that's what he called it.  You may disagree with his wording, but I suspect he 
did in fact post that with a straight face.


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From: Dave Johansen <davejohansen gmail com>
To: Ray Morris <webmastersguide2000 yahoo com> 
Cc: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>; "desktop-devel-list gnome org" <desktop-devel-list gnome org> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Middle click, "dumbing down" Slashdotted



On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Ray Morris <webmastersguide2000 yahoo com> wrote:

Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> said:
> > > I have read discussion of making things easier for new users, the key word "discoverable"
> > > is used more than once on the page about the proposal, etc.
>
> > Which page? Which proposal?
>
>
> The wiki, for example:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/Selections
>
> and the Bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665193

Not be be a jerk, but can you seriously post that with a straight face? The quick checks I did on the history 
of that wiki didn't turn up anything about the middle mouse button until last week and that bugzilla has 
several people begging that the behavior not be changed. I don't see how that can be considered a "proposal" 
or "discussion" that is viewed as a good motivation for this sort of change.