| Summary: | config option to select mouse button for clicking links. | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | Andreas Pakulat <apaku> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED REMIND | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | ||
| Priority: | LO | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Andreas Pakulat
2007-12-05 18:34:18 UTC
Until recently links did open with a single left click. This behaviour proved highly frustrating for several users because: 1) They often wanted to select blocks of text or words inside a link, without activating the link. 2) They wanted to paste text into the terminal window without caring where they clicked within it. 3) They wanted to give focus to the terminal window without activating links that happened to be in the pseudo-random place which was clicked. For these reasons the single-click to open functionality was removed. Only 2) is valid for middle-click. I'm changing this to a wishlist bug, please add a config option to allow to select a mouse button for clicking a link. As I said I find it rather irritating that I can't click on a highlighted link top open it in a browser. > please add a config option to allow to select a mouse button for clicking a link.
I am keen to minimize the number of configuration options, especially for minor things like this. If at all possible I want the right action to be performed based on the context.
> As I said I find it rather irritating that I can't click on
> a highlighted link top open it in a browser.
I honestly do not believe that needing to right click on a link is particularly inconvenient.
If a patch is provided I will review it but otherwise I do not plan to implement this.
Closing as 'REMIND' as per comment #4. Hmm, you're probably right, this should "just work". But as there's no way to read a users mind you're basically stuck. There's no standard mouse button to use, the only option I can think of is using something like Ctrl+Click, which is hard to discover and somewhat awkward too. Oh and don't expect any patches from me, waaaaay too little time for hacking :) |