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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Configurability is the answer. Some people like it some don't, just have a setting to turn it off and it's fine

Personally I don't see much point in it as I just use the three finger swipe anyway, too much effort to mouse up to the top left and click it then navigate a GUI compared to just swiping left and right

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmm, I wouldn't like having such a setting cluttering up my settings panel. Maybe they could allow the user to configure whether they want such a setting?

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You'd need a setting to decide whether you wanted that configuration file too though, I'm not sure if I'd want it taking up space on my disk