Clipboard for the dummies

[Christoph Cullmann]

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On Friday 01 November 2002 20:46, Michael Brade wrote:
> First of all, 100% agreed with all that David said, yes to all points. To
> me the following is most important: only add something to the clipboard if
> the user invoked the selection. _Never ever_ use automatically selected
> things like lineedits in dialogs or the selections done by the
> autocompletion feature for Ctrl-V or MMB. Those selections are IMO no real
> selections, just to be able to delete them with only one keystroke (Del,
> for example).
>
> On Friday 01 November 2002 15:01, David Faure wrote:
> > My new reasoning
> > would be more along the lines of: what the user _voluntarily_ selects
> > gets copied. So mouse + keyboard put the selected text into the
> > "selection", but auto-select by lineedits wouldn't.
>
> Yep. Users can't distinguish between making a selection by mouse or by
> Shif+Arrows. (And I can't, either ;-)
Have "fixed" the kate part in CVS to behave that way some mins ago (fixed that
the selection per keyboard and mouse are the same), could somebody test that
and the whole clipboard/selection behaviour ? Perhaps I got something wrong,
but would like to have kate part behaving well or better "standard" conform
for the 3.1 release.

cu
Christoph


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Christoph "Crossfire" Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann at kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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