Bug 54536

Summary:	make middle mouse button paste location optional
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	esigra
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description Will Stephenson 2003-02-12 12:00:15 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
OS:          Linux

The feature that makes MMB paste the clipboard as the location in Konqueror, when used with a scrollwheel mouse where pressing the wheel is MMB, drives me to distraction.  Scrolling the current page frequently makes me change pages.  Please can this behaviour be made configurable?

TIA

Will

Comment 1 gilligan 2003-02-18 16:36:13 UTC

What I'd like to see is some checking of the URL being pasted to make sure it is valid.  For example, say I'm on this bug report page and have some text highlighted for some reason, then I wish to click a link and open it in a window.  If I miss the link (which happens either from bad mousing or my sensitive scroll wheel moving the page before the middle click registers), I'll get an error like "Unknown Host: rent page frequently makes me chang".  This is not desired behaviour, even though both the latest Mozilla and KDE 2.2 to 3.1 do this.  Until I checked the Mozilla bug reports, I wasn't even sure why the heck the browsers were trying to open random bits of text (as usually my X clipboard had text from a long while ago).  Now that I know you can middle click with a URL in the clipboard to open that URL, I think I'll actually be using the feature.  I agree with the original poster that it maybe should be optional, but what I'd more like to see is that it shoulc be "smarter".  Even as a fairly experienced UNIX user, I couldn't figure out what was going on.  Had it only been opening the browser with a valid URL I might've figured it out a lot earlier (and would've probably enjoyed the feature instead of hating it).  For many users, this "feature" is just an annoying thing that happens when you miss a link.

Comment 2 John Firebaugh 2003-08-01 07:31:23 UTC

*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.