On 24 Jul 2008, at 22:21, Christian Neumair wrote:
The gist of the associated bug report [1] (quotation by Alex Larsson):
“For two-button mice Alt-drag is already availible. Query-dragging
is a
seldom used feature that should not impede on usage of the context
menu.”
Thanks for digging that up-- rings a bell now. Seems like the switch
certainly wasn't taken lightly at the time, although there's never any
harm in revisiting such decisions from time to time in light of other
changes (such as the near-ubiquity of scroll wheels nowadays compared
to six or seven years ago, as Andy mentioned).
Cheeri,
Calum.
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