[Bug 337068] Re: Middle clicking non background area rotates cube

[Kristopher Ives]

Yes, I was using 8.04 and this happened both when upgrade and fresh
installed. I also noticed that this happens with the Desktop Wall in the
same way.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Robert Ancell
<robert.ancell at canonical.com>wrote:

> Confirming behaviour in Jaunty.  I suspect the issue is these GUI
> elements already use the middle click event (normally used for pasting).
> Can you confirm the behaviour wasn't the same pre-Intrepid?
>
> Note that the default keybindings are ctrl+alt+left mouse which does not
> have this problem.
>
> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Confirmed
>
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> Middle clicking non background area rotates cube
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337068
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> Status in “compiz” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: compiz
>
> I enjoy the ability to middle click my background and start rotating the
> cube, since usually some
> part of my background is visible. I have noticed before the upgrade to
> Intrepid this only worked
> when clicking the background, which I believe was caught by nautilus.
>
> With Intrepid came some obvious changes to how this works. Now, not only
> does the cube rotation
> begin when clicking the background with a middle click, but sometimes other
> GUI elements as well. Which
> elements these are or how a user is supposed to understand is not clear,
> and even if it was clear should
> warrant a different setting. Not all users that want to click their
> background want to also use certain
> GUI elements for the same feature.
>
> I am convinced this is a bug and nobody actually wants things to start
> rotating when they click a
> GUI element, but if that is the case I think it should be separated from
> the existing setting for
> rotating on background click.
>
> Examples of places you can click to see this:
>  * Open Rhythmbox and middle click between the "Artist" and "Album" lists.
> The same behaviour is also
>   visible if you click the areas of the progress bar that are not part of
> the graphic.
>  * Click the gnome-power-manager icon and select details about your
> battery, then click slightly below
>   the title bar of the shown window.
>  * Open gnome-system-monitor and click various areas on any of the pages,
> all of them have some areas that
>   do this.
>

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