Bug #44931 - middle click behaviour: open link in new window or paste a url

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:21, Clarence Dang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44931
> 
> May I take the action I've proposed in Comment #70 i.e. apply Per Winkvist's 
> patch to make the behaviour configurable? [*]  This would increase usability 
> (at least for a fair number of users) and resolve the 14th most hated bug in 
> KDE.	
> 
> Please CC replies to me as I'm not subscribed or apply the patch yourself.
> 
> Thanks,
> Clarence
> 
> * I'll update the patch if neccessary since it's 2 years old.  The problem is 
> that I wrote another patch a week ago before realising that someone else had 
> already written one.  The code is almost the same.

The added configuration item sounds good to me, I see no way to "improve the feature
so that no configuration is needed". Either MMB pastes or it doesn't.

But I guess the whole debate continues on whether the feature should be on or off by default...
On one hand it's an advanced feature so it's ok if people have to turn it on,
on the other hand it used to be enabled so the change in behavior might make
people think it's broken in the next release...
Let's just say I'm surprised that the patch deactivates MMB-pasting by default
(but if everyone is okay with that, I'm not objecting). I'm rather among the ones
who never really used MMB to paste, and only activated it by mistake.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).