Comment by mrob
3 days ago
This is IMO the correct decision, and I say that as a regular user of middle-click paste. Middle-click paste is a classic convenience/security tradeoff. It's faster than using the keyboard, but it makes it very easy to accidentally leak confidential information. In all such tradeoffs, the default setting should favor security.
Only if the option was removed entirely would I have reason to complain.
In theory I'd agree as well.
In reality such features are often dropped, no settings in gnome-settings, and non default features are not tested in new builds.
So you end up googling how to get that feature back and the answer is manually navigating the config tree or using gnome-tweaks, both with large disclaimers that any changes might break your system.
No thanks, I'd rather have left click to select and middle click to paste, do we really have to involve the keyboard by default?
I half agree, but rather I'd say secrets shouldn't go into clipboard. Have some kind of separate channel for it. It is insane to me that so many workflows rely on putting secrets into a box any app or even webpage can peek into.
I love selecting some text in the terminal, then just middle-clicking and... aaahhh!