GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 606386
Middle click to close tab
Last modified: 2017-06-30 01:00:56 UTC
I'd like to configure middle-click to close tabs. Is that already possible somehow? If so (and I probably didn't see it), where can I find a list of supported gconf options?
No, but there's extensions (that might no longer work...) to do it, check http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/ThirdPartyExtensions
I hereby reopen this per instructions on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725123 X's are things of the past. Oh I can't reopen it. Somebody do it for me.
CCing Michael so he can decide whether he wants to consider it at this time.
No, I want Epiphany's behavior to be consistent with all other GNOME applications. No other GNOME application supports close on middle-click. This is something that should be changed desktop-wide if we do it at all, and that means making the change in GtkNotebook. Yes, Emmanuele is of course right that the semantics of closing a tab are application-specific, but GtkNotebook could still manage the event box and fire a signal for applications to handle, for example. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 725123 ***
All I know is I am using Epiphany under icewm under nodm. Not under Gnome. Also I suppose you use Firefox etc. under Gnome. In none of these cases do all the pieces have the same exact button assignments as their enclosing items. Just as when you use one of the big name browsers under Gnome, do you expect its click actions to match the Gnome model and not its own...
Just like Bug 784290 even what look like hyperlinks open in different browsers, so (in)consistency has a price...
(In reply to Dan Jacobson from comment #5) > All I know is I am using Epiphany under icewm under nodm. Not under Gnome. That's fine, and many GNOME products work under other desktop environments, but the first priority is for them to work fully and consistently under GNOME, because they are part of the GNOME project. So there will be a limit to the effort made to make them automagically adapt to other environments. You're going to have to wait until opinions change in one or both of the involved projects, if ever, to see this feature. Multiple tickets have just been closed from various angles as WONTFIX. You won't change that by making the same 'but I think this is really annoying' points that many other users have already made, which just add up to an equally annoying noise in mine and other users' email mailboxes.
We'll implement this if other GNOME apps do so in a coordinated manner. Epiphany isn't here to duplicate every user interaction pattern of Firefox and Chrome, it'
The middle click target area is much larger than clicking on an X. To click on the X one must concentrate and aim etc. When you come to think of it it is the smallest of all targets there are to click on in the whole browser. Equal to a one character wide hyperlink. Just the wrong thing for older people trying to keep their wrists in health. It has already become a standard, just like left clicking opens hyperlinks. Try it. I swear five minutes and you'll be hooked. In emacs users can simply set e.g., (global-set-key [mouse-2] 'close-tab) If that is not possible then perhaps there could be a Preference added, [x] Middle click on tab does nothing. or [ ] Middle click to close tab. so all people could be accommodated.
(In reply to Dan Jacobson from comment #9) > Equal to a one character wide hyperlink. OK, two character wide.