[Usability]Re: middle button scroll

[Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu>]

Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> Do you think that something like that will be useful
> in gtk+?  I find it quite useful myself, but as you
> may guess you lose the paste of PRIMARY (but I use the
> scroll *A LOT* more than PRIMARY...)

I agree that the auto-scroll is more useful than the primary selection 
cut+paste system.

But the problem is that there are way too many unix users and unix 
programs that don't know there's more to cut+paste than primary.  If you 
take away middle-click paste, you'll:

  - Prevent people from pasting into any GTK application from an xterm, 
amongst other programs
  - Seriously confuse people who don't understand the difference 
between the primary selection and the clipboard (probably 95% of the users)

But in an ideal world, we'd be rid of the primary selection and everyone 
would just use the clipboard.  In this world, it'd be great to have 
middle-click perform auto-scroll.  I'd really like to see this feature 
implemented, but toggled via a gconf key (defaulting to off).