On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 03:59:17 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 06:13:30PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
>> So, anyway, X11 somewhat sucks. (Will Wayland suck less? Don't hold
>> your breath waiting.)
>
> On one hand, X desperately needed a clean rewrite, at least 30 years ago.
> On the other... despite some experienced X people being among Wayland
> developers, there's too much bizarre stuff like:
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelection
>
> So grudgingly the idiots agreed to "consider" bringing back a reduced form
> of mouse paste "to ease the transition for long-term X users".
>
> Because, you know, that's an obscure easter egg. And "there are few middle
> mouse buttons in the world" (have you seen a mouse without a middle button
> this millenium?).

I cannot believe what I read. If they're so concerned about people
mistakingly click their nowhere-to-be-found middle button, why aren't they
just as concerned abut them erroneusly pressing Ctrl+v with the pointer in the
wrong place?


Alessandro