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Re:Gnome Developers Re-Implement Middle-Click Paste by vhf on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @08:12AM (#6326917)
> Drag and drop is universally a "cut and paste" operation.

Unless you are using Gnome and the origin and destination of your drag and drop are on two different devices. In which case it will copy instead of cut.

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Re:Gnome Developers Re-Implement Middle-Click Paste by therealunreal on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @08:22AM (#6326964)
Not just Gnome. Windows is like that too.
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Re:Gnome Developers Re-Implement Middle-Click Paste by Pxtl on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:01AM (#6327597)
This ambiguity means that I never use lclick-drag even when I'm tempted to use the clumsy operation - on windows I always RClick-drag so that the operation (move or copy) is explicitly selected.
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