[Kde-accessibility] [Bug 44931] middle click behavior: open link in new window or paste a url

[rakko at charter.net]

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------- Additional Comments From rakko at charter.net  2003-05-21 22:57 -------
I'm glad to see that there is a good discussion on this, and that a good number of 
people, like me, are against the current behavior. I have made the mistake many times 
myself of accidentally middle clicking while I had a URL (or something Konq thought 
was a URL) selected. 
 
I have a few points to make. First, make it a configurable option. We already have the 
option to make a right click go back in history. Don't give me any of this hypocritical 
nonsense about how adding configuration options is bad. 
 
Second, the issue of "standard" behavior. Perhaps Mozilla/Netscape and some other 
browsers implement this "feature." That doesn't entail in any way that the feature is 
standard. According to Datschge, middle button click on most of the systems Konqueror 
runs on has as its "standard" behavior some sort of clicking. Not so. As pointed out 
above, that behavior is only expected of MMB clicks in *text fields*. MMB clicking and 
dragging has many different uses in non-text widgets in X, none of which could 
reasonably be called "standard." 
 
Third, autoscrolling is useful, regardless of whether it comes from the taboo Windows 
world or not. I would also like to see it in KDE as a whole, not just Konqueror, although I 
don't have any good idea of what gesture/action/etc. should evoke it, since many apps 
are taken up mostly by text areas, where the MMB paste behavior is expected and 
established behavior.