[Qt-creator] Small proposal

Vladimir Efremov vefremov at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 13:24:55 CET 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Thorbjørn Lindeijer
<thorbjorn.lindeijer at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, on X11 the middle mouse button pastes, so it's not an option there.

Right, but here this behaviour is implemented by X-server itself, AFAIK.

> Also, somebody else suggested we allow scrolling the page when the
> middle mouse button is pressed, for people who do not have a scroll wheel.
>

I think, this is not a frequent situation nowadays.

> I've never seen any software that copies when pressing the middle mouse
> button. Is this common in any way? In any case I don't think we can

On MacOSX some applications do that. Examples are: Terminal and above
mentioned Aquamacs Emacs.

> realistically support that, at least not by default.
>

Yes, I don't think it makes sense to do by default. But it may be
especially convenient for users working in different OSes (Unix and
MacOS).

Regards,
   Vladimir
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