[Bug 624566] Re: Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox)

2012-11-23 Thread Dmitry Kann
I find the reasoning not valid. This would definitely a useful feature, not closing tabs with a middle click is a de facto standard in almost all browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, even Internet Explorer (!) Having tabs disappear if a user accidentally middle clicks anwhere inside them is

[Bug 624566] Re: Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox)

2012-11-23 Thread Dmitry Kann
I find the reasoning not valid. This would definitely be a useful feature. Closing tabs with a middle click is a de facto standard in almost all browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, even Internet Explorer (!) Having tabs disappear if a user accidentally middle clicks anwhere inside them is

[Bug 624566] Re: Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox)

2012-11-23 Thread Daniel Ellis
Now that I've converted all my machines to Linux Mint, I think I might try the patch again with Pluma (The fork of gedit which is part of the MATE desktop). I bet the MATE maintainers would gladly use it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 624566] Re: Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox)

2010-08-26 Thread Daniel Ellis
** Patch added: Patch to add the ability to close a tab using the middle mouse button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624566/+attachment/1520061/+files/middle-click-close.patch -- Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624566 You received this

[Bug 624566] Re: Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox)

2010-08-26 Thread Daniel Ellis
The first patch was not suitable, because it would always close the active tab, not the tab which was clicked on. Essentially I think the first patch was in the wrong place altogether. This patch only changes gedit-tab-label.c and the click handler simply sends the same CLOSE_CLICKED signal that

[Bug 624566] Re: Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox)

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Coulson
The upstream bug report already gives a list of valid reasons for not doing this, so I'm not sure why you thought we'd come to a different conclusion. From the upstream report: This kind of feature is avoided in Gnome because it is - confusing and prone to mistakes - redundant (we already have

[Bug 624566] Re: Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox)

2010-08-26 Thread Brian Murray
** Tags added: patch -- Enhancement: Middle click to close tab (like Firefox) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624566 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com