Re: [Epiphany] Re: ui improvement requests

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>]

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 08:01, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 03:58, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> > adam@cec.wustl.edu writes: 
> > > Is it too late, or impossible, to have middle click on the page just open a new
> > > tab with the selected URL?  Then all this business about selecting or not
> > > selecting becomes moot. 
> > Theres a secret pref for that in gconf. That is a horrible default though as 
> > users (including me) always end up accidentally middle clicking while 
> > scrolling. (which is also why autoscroll is actually a good default here). 
> 
> AAGH! That's horrible. I just complained about the lack of
> middle-click-open-url functionality (which, I remind you again, has been
> a feature of Unix/X11 browsers since the beginning of time), and now I
> find it's a disabled-by-default hidden feature implemented wrong. 
> 
> There should be no new tab.

I agree here. A bug report would be helpful.

Marco