http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18448
--- Comment #8 from Igor Tarasov tarasov.igor@gmail.com 2009-05-13 06:03:10 --- (In reply to comment #7)
PRIMARY selection is disabled by default because that's not what users coming from Windows expect.
But isn't it what users using linux expect? Wine by default uses linux window manager, so that windows behave not like in windows, they may have another button set etc, but that's okay, since we're in linux, and we try to integrate wine applications as seamless as possible, right?
Then, why do we break that seamless integration with selections?
IMHO it's not worth adding it to winecfg due to that.
There are options for above-mentioned window manager in winecfg, so why not having this one?
Feel free to send a patch to document it.
Not sure I understand well what exactly should be documented.
Again, handling middle mouse button (as well as other buttons and keys) is up to a Windows application, not to Wine. Wine just passes events to the app.
Umm... In windows, applications ignore middle-click. You can't paste text in notepad in windows using middle-click. But you can do that with the same native notepad.exe in wine. So, who's pasting text on middle-click - wine or application? That's wine who reacts on middle-click, and it reacts not correctly.
So, wine made an attempt to get integrated into linux in this area, but made it wrong.
Wine should either igonre middle-clicks for pasting (as windows applications do) or behave as linux applications do. Currently wine behavior is not logical.