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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

> using the middle button would also be inconsistent with Gnome's
> current guidelines, see: 
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-mouse.html.en#mouse-buttons
> according to the above guidelines, usage of the middle button would in
> this particular case be addressed to the advanced user only, thereby
> resulting in being a "hidden treasure".

Again, those guidelines seem to refer to actions assigned *exclusively*
to the middle button. What is being proposed here is the middle button
as an *alternative*.