Post B29PXl01l6j1DA2Ak4 by glent@aus.social
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(DIR) Post #B29PQbWGbghFmZheLo by bruce@darkmoon.social
2026-01-09T23:49:54Z
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@vkc Come to think of it, right click is redundant, too. We should go full Apple and just have one button mice, and use the alt key for everything. People love that.
(DIR) Post #B29PXl01l6j1DA2Ak4 by glent@aus.social
2026-01-10T00:01:59Z
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@vkc There is history.What fuels the anger is the annoyance at the lack of reflection within Gnome of its role in the failure of desktop Linux.Most notably it's insular design choices in Gnome 3, and the early shipment of that non-ready software, reducing Linux's share of the market from MacOS levels to a third of that.Today, yet another insular design choice by Gnome. Of course people are going to give them stick. Even if it's a good decision.
(DIR) Post #B29PyWmGkA3wvCMclM by eseilt@mastodon.scot
2026-01-10T00:13:17Z
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@vkc They do have a history of breaking workflows for no good reason. My first thought was "they are going to drop support for it in the future and then I'm going to have to find a new DE again, what a headache".Of course they have the right to do whatever they please but it shouldn't be surprising that the existing users whose lives it makes more difficult will complain.Whether they always hit the right tone with their complaints is another matter, to be sure.
(DIR) Post #B29PybjyI8CCJWKMNM by eseilt@mastodon.scot
2026-01-10T00:19:34Z
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@vkc I also had no idea people were having trouble with middle-button paste, until I saw people's reactions to this change.It's such a delightful little helper, saves 2 keyboard interactions, doesn't ever paste formatting, gives me an extra buffer... and I don't recall ever having trouble with it since Firefox stopped opening everything pasted into it as a URL, many years ago.Now I wonder what it is that I can't get used to that everybody else thinks is the best thing ever.
(DIR) Post #B29Q3W9gU7OYRIhBey by eseilt@mastodon.scot
2026-01-10T00:55:59Z
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@tragivictoria I'm saying that with the project's history it's an understandable reaction to expect that your life will be made more difficult. 15-20 years ago they broke a lot of stuff for a lot of people, for the benefit of imaginary users who knew nothing of computers, and people have long memories.
(DIR) Post #B29Q9yhBHlrWh1RaPA by theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-09T23:38:29Z
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@vkc it's framed in obvious inflammatory rhetoric, and also "because X11 did it that way" is a total non-reason for nuking a feature common to graphical unices since the 1980s. But yes, I agree, they're free to do whatever they want in their little playground! GNOME has been pushing through the boundaries of sensible user interface design for quite a while now. Nothing new there.
(DIR) Post #B29QYjD7zitPuKBlAm by VampirePenguin@mastodon.social
2026-01-10T16:43:11Z
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@vkc Meanwhile, here in KDE land: *crickets* Yeah because here middle click is whatever the fuck you want, the correct answer to the question, what should middle click do?
(DIR) Post #B29RSmpDk99DKljkUy by nicholas@aklp.club
2026-01-10T19:17:20.413998Z
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so-called "insular design choices"I mean, didn't they preemptively locked the discussion thread to just developers and insta-closed (and threatened to ban folks creating) other form topics about it trying to get some user feedback on the record? I agree with your points that gnome gets to do whatever gnome wants, and maybe folks on the internet could try chilling out once in a while; but that said: "insular" is just a straight-up accurate way to describe gnome's process here if Brodie's reporting on the situation was accurate. 🤷♀️
(DIR) Post #B29YhpZaVaHHsZXsvo by wecanfixthis@poa.st
2026-01-10T19:31:03.453366Z
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@VampirePenguin @vkc Whatever happened in Minneapolis this week; thats what