David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run
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fucking GNOME again, this time they want to remove middle click

theregister.com/2026/01/07/gno

the guy also filed a bug on fucking Firefox to remove it. Mozilla told him to fuck off. I think this answer has the explanation:

> This is basically a Gnome dev trying to change a setting everywhere they personally don't like (my suspicion is they middle-clicked something embarrassing personally and now are on a warpath).

phabricator.services.mozilla.c

EDIT: hello to all the GNOME partisans replying "they're not *removing* it, they're *disabling* it, you fool, you rube," yeah thanks guys. i'm sure you'll fix it in version 0.8

GNOME dev gives middle-click paste fans the middle finger

Opinion: Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism'

www.theregister.com

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