@ebassi Just recently I got an issue from a user on KDE who has Reduced Motion (or similar) enabled there but our GTK app on Flatpak doesn't inherit it from KDE, only (the old option) from GNOME.

Thanks @uriel@keinpfusch.net, I am not talking about a mouse click.

You realize this is exactly what the discussion is about, right?

I point to a potential mistake to disable this feature, as it is a strength, not a weakness to have it by default.

Look, I've read a --developer-- of Gnome, saying you can configure it with a click. He even posted screenshot.
It is not --disabled-- is just configurable.

The first time I installed Linux I had to specify the horizontal frequency of the DAC in my graphical card, and now you tell me one click is "disabled"?

Ok, right. Let me ask first: do you have both arms, and both hands? Second, all your fingers are ok? If you are fingers-challenged, then you are right.

? . I am giving some evidence that this educated-guess-based decision might be wrong.

Nope. What I see is, you assume 50% true and 50% false, just because you have no numbers. And you do it in front of a mathematician. And maybe other matematicians are also looking. Do you know how delicate and sensitive we are, to this kind of "educated guess"? I feel bad, already. OMG! Someone calls an ambulance!

I suggest you do NOT pick "bookmaker" as your next career. Assuming 50%/50% may not, how to say, be the most "educated" way to do it.

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@ebassi @GerryT Just because you dislike a feature doesn’t mean that it’s complete trash. Countless folk rely on this essential feature. I use this *hundreds* of times a day. It’s incredibly useful for folks who don’t (or can’t) use a keyboard for everything.

The more serious issue however, is the attitude taken. Insulting and degrading people who rely on a feature you dislike is an absolutely unacceptable way to treat fellow humans.

Hi @uriel , you really diverge from the topic. I have given substantiated response, which you did not read or did not respond to.

About 50% / 50%. I made a hypothetical situation as basis for discussion. My honest opinion is that it is something like 98% PRO, 2% CON this feature for all users that ever willingly/accidental discovered this feature.

@ebassi

Hi @uriel@keinpfusch.net , you really diverge from the topic

no. We have a developer who is telling you is configurable with a single click, and he even took screenshots. You substantiated nothing. Or, well, you tried to substantiate using this 50% / 50% assumption, just because you have no data. This is not "base for discussion", 'cause is just WRONG. "I don't know" is not "50% true". Is not "a base for discussion": is just bovine output.

About 50% / 50%. I made a hypothetical situation as basis for discussion

Again this? Everything is hypothetical for you is 50% / 50%?

My honest opinion is that it is something like 98% PRO, 2% CON this feature for all users that ever willingly/accidental discovered this feature.

this is like, you know, just your opinion, man.



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@uriel Your reply shows that you did not read/comprehend my responses.

As said before, it is not about a mouse click to activate/deactivate the feature. It is about a not substantiated - and potentially wrong - decision that has a negative impact on many users and on the default usability of Gnome.

@ebassi

Privacy is not even the problem with telemetry. The problem with telemetry is that it's not human and is often used by arrogant devs who think they know better than the users who are most likely using it longer than the former

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@ebassi@mastodon.social but evil gnome kicked my cat

/j

@ebassi yeah I miss less responsibility

@ebassi Wait, is it being removed (i don't keep up). I use middle click a lot.... The only thing i didn't like was that it used a second clipboard sometimes on x11 because x11 clipboard is cursed anyway.

@swags it's being disabled by default in GTK applications and anything that listens to the GTK settings

@swags Chrome will start listening to the GTK setting in the next release, and Firefox also may disable it by default (but still listen to the GTK setting)

@ebassi Aw Well I'm gonna be a little bummed... but i sorta get it because its kinda a doohickey from the past. Worst case I'll patch it back cuz old habits die hard, but will there be a gsettings flag? (you mention gtk settings, so i assume so?)

@swags there's already a gsettings key; the change is from true to false: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/119

@ebassi Oh hell yeah, cool then I guess it is kinda impressive that people are whining about a simple default settings change (that to be fair was legacy x11 jank [i think] to begin with) but hey its what it is.

@swags just for reference, it's also in tweaks and in the future maybe even in gnome settings.

@Isofruit I think it would be good to have in gnome settings, at least. Middle click pasting is kind of an old unix doohickey, and while most people wont miss it, i imagine many are going to still gonna want that. hiding it in gsettings might not be ideal, maybe...

@swags Oh, they really do be tooting up a storm about this if the activity on #gnome related to it is anything to go by.

@Isofruit i try to ignore what the internet en mass thinks. Probably for the best.

@ebassi the real answer is "random bit of terminal WILL be accidentally pasted into IRC" xD

The fucked up thing is that I do have a habit of using "middle click" paste intentionally in the terminal, because it is fast, but then I end up accidentally pasting random crap into chats all the goddamn time

(mostly because "middle click" means "three finger tap", I'll admit that it's harder to accidentally middle click a mouse, but I don't want to use a mouse for anything other than gaming and CAD)

@swags @Isofruit There is a graphical toggle for it in the GNOME Tweaks app, it's been there for years, no terminal needed.