https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514208

--- Comment #5 from Konstantin Kharlamov <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #4)
> In all the feedback I've seen of people not wanting middle click paste the
> issue has always been about how easy it is to trigger accidentally rather
> than an issue of not being aware of what has just happened. 
> I haven't many KDE complaints since we added the option.

Do you have a reference? Every complaint I saw so far (and I can give examples)
that mention "accidental paste" is specifically because a user wasn't aware of
the feature and not because they accidentally triggered it.

I struggle to see how you could occasionally trigger it, because doing so
requires pressing middle mouse button over an input field — but there's no
other functional it would conflict with, hence I can't see how to trigger it
occasionally.

The reasons I created this issues are that α) some people annoyed by this
functional (for whatever reason, they always cite insecurity of occasional
paste), and β) it is a unique Linux feature which very few know about. For the
paste months I've talked to quite a few converts from Windows on reddit
mentioning to them this feature, and the feedback has been either positive or
neutral. I'd be glad if I wouldn't have to reveal this cool feature to new
people manually 😊

> I'm not especially convinced by something that happens after
> the fact; the already has just leaned it's pastes a load of content in their
> document because they can see it. If it was accidental middle click they're
> already annoyed and will definitely check no and remain annoyed. If it was
> deliberate then we don't need the message.

Well, the suggestion is that triggering middle-paste would not paste the
content on the first use, but instead would trigger the popup. I.e. nothing was
pasted and nobody gets annoyed 😊

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