Clipboard for the dummies

[David Faure]

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On Saturday 02 November 2002 19:24, Richard Bos wrote:
> Op zaterdag 2 november 2002 16:23, schreef Christoph Cullmann:
> > I don't see any case where the automagically mouse/keyboard selection would
> > hurt usergroup 2, as they simply don't know and don't use it (and if they
> > try it and don't like it, they can simply don't use it, won't hurt them, or
> > ?), but usergroup 1 (like me and others) would be hurt very much if we
> > abandon the selection thing.
> >
> > Why break something that many people are used to, only to avoid that new
> > people don't use it ? I don't think it will confuse any new user, as the
> > selection don't overwrite the clipboard and won't break their "from
> > windows" known CTRL-C/V stuff.
> 
> Well said Christoph.  I know many people that are used to the copy and paste 
> using the mouse (MMB).  It would hurt me and those people, if the <ctrl>-V 
> etc alone would be supported by KDE!  So, please keep on supporting copy and 
> paste using the mouse (MMB)!

I think it was never question of completely removing the lmb/mmb stuff.
But the question was rather: *if* lmb/mmb also requires "unique global selection",
i.e. selecting something unselects the previously selected text, even in another
application (as is currently the case), *then* this might confuse the "windows" users,
who don't use lmb/mmb but want to be allowed multiple selections (e.g. one per window).

In that case one might think of an option, to choose whether selections are
global or per-window.
The X11 way is: global, which makes it a bit easier to use lmb/mmb (you know what mmb
is going to insert), and the windows way is per-window - lmb/mmb would still work, 
IMHO, just in a slightly more confusing way (multiple selections).

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