Bug 97170

Summary:	middle-click to open/close tabs
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component:	kontact plugin	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description S. Burmeister 2005-01-16 20:40:39 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.91)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I do not know the way other people read the news, yet in my case I take a look at the article-list, click on it to open it, read it and close it.

At the moment, in order to close the article I have to go all the way to that tiny button at the top-right. It would be so much more convenient, if, after I finished a article, I could simply use the middle-click to close the tab I just opened.

Further, in order not to have to go all the way down to the "complete article" link, it would be very useful to have middle-click open an article from the article-list into a new tab. At the moment both, middle-click as well as double-click open an article outside akregator. Why waste one of those buttons, if you can use both for different functionalities?

Comment 1 Frank Osterfeld 2005-01-17 08:55:12 UTC

You can configure the middle click behaviour in the configuration dialog->browser. We could change the default though.

About closing, I rather refuse to change things like middle click behaviour in the browser widgets. It most certainly breaks the usage of the browser and results in inconsistent behaviour in e.g. konq and akregator. Mind that in a form, you normally use middle click for pasting from the clipboard.
To close the widget quickly, you can use Ctrl+W. These should be mentioned in the context menu of the tabs of course. I tried to add them, but for some reason, they don't show up here.

Comment 2 S. Burmeister 2005-01-17 09:41:28 UTC

I did not see the middle-click configuration, you're right.

About that closing, I did not think of those tabs as brwoser-windows, because I only use them to read, but you are right here too. I guess if konqueror would support Opera's and fierfox's mouse gestures, i.e. the ones it does plus the "rocker gestures" http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73434, I would not have come to think about this.

Displaying the short-cuts in tooltips is a very good idea. I know about CTRL+W, yet when I read, I usually become a leaning back, mouse-only guy. ;)

I close this as worksforme, yet plea to make middle-click open articles in new tab as default. I think this is also the common behaviour for newest mozilla and of course konqueror when middle-clicking bookmarks.

Thanks a lot!