https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368510
Bug ID: 368510
Summary: inconsistent behavior of mouse buttons
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Reporter: j22...@gmail.com
CC: bhus...@gmail.com, plasma-b...@kde.org
Not sure if this belongs here, but it is reported for Linux Mint 17.3 which
uses Plasma4 and Linux Mint 18 which uses Plasma 5, right?
Posted in:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=229219
After using it and analysing a little more, I don't think this is a good
feature. It's main problem is inconsistency. There is no intuitive way to know
when the right button of the mouse will replicate the left button or if it will
act differently.
For example, right-click opens the context menu and then there are several ways
of choosing one of the options in the context menu. As an example, select this
text and then press right button. From here there are three ways of copying the
text to clipboard using the mouse:
1) release right button before moving the pointer, then choose "copy" by
pressing again the right button (ie right button is equivalent to left button)
2) "normal" way: release right button before moving the pointer, then choose
"copy" by pressing the left button
3) keep pressing right button and release it over the "copy" option (ie right
button is equivalent to left button)
In cases 1 and 2 we can say both buttons are equivalent (they can choose one
option in the context menu).
But then in several other cases buttons are not equivalent (for example I can
not press "OK" using right button in a file save dialog)
Therefore sometimes buttons are equivalent, sometimes they are not. Maybe the
only place cases when they are equivalent is when choosing options from a
context-menu?
IMHO, choosing should be always by left click, to avoid threads like this
one... And, ideally, this behaviour could be configured in system settings if
anyone wants otherwise... just my opinion.
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Asus laptop X555LA 64bit
Linux Mint 17.3 KDE
Linux 4.4.0-28-generic
KDE SC Version: 4.13.2
Reproducible: Always
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