While I love the convenience offered by the Linux selection-clipboard, it seems to mess with the design-language of the mouse. Maybe the Gnome team could keep the feature but move it to a new mouse action?
Moving the selection-paste to Meta+Lclick would get my vote. Would be a little bit painful transition, but would keep the feature while freeing up the middle-click for a role more consistent with its other functions.
And yeah, inter-app drag-and-drop is nightmarish because it's so hard to switch-tasks and scroll to the target without releasing the mouse. It's just not a useful interaction and 90% of the time I drag-and-drop something on Windows it's accidental anyways - it's a feature that belongs in a dustbin.
i actually appreciate this, because somteimes I really do want to copy something, do some other things, and then paste. Can't have the selection buffer overwriting the clipboard buffer.
> By the way, do people really use drag-n-drop on a daily basis? ... while maintaining the mouse button pressed all the while.
Agreed, especially in the age of the trackpad, on which drag and drop is far more difficult.
I actually made a program to help automate the task, and it used the keyboard, but I always end up using XnView and drag-n-drop anyway.
The bug in my humble opinion is having separate "selection" and "clipboard" buffers, but I just use a small util in the background to always keep both synchronized.
By the way, do people really use drag-n-drop on a daily basis? The few times I need to use that (mostly on windows) it's a really painful and awkward operation. You have to select what you want, click, then find the target (possibly minimized or hidden or something) and then drop at the right position while maintaining the mouse button pressed all the while. That's pretty terrible user experience as far as I'm concerned, but maybe I'm just doing it wrong/not used to it.