Clipboard problems (yes, again)

[Neil Stevens]

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On Wednesday October 30, 2002 07:04, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I propose doing the following changes in KClipboard:
>
> - making completely separate clipboard and selection the default setting
>
>  I insist on this one. See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48024 .
> Quite easy to reproduce, just find some QTextEdit in any KDE app, make
> sure your Klipper is _not_ configured to have clipboard and selection
> completely separate, select some text in it using mouse, wait two
> seconds, press Ctrl+X.
>
>  The fix for this specific problem is easy, just moving the call to
> removeSelectedText() above the clipboard setting in QTextEdit::cut().
> Everybody who knows why, two bonus points; the rest - better don't try
> to find out, you'll risk headache. However, this is the third time
> (IIRC) this syncing behaviour is causing trouble, and more are likely to
> come (yes, they're Qt bugs, but nevertheless, they're bugs - and as you
> can see in this QTextEdit case, they're hideous. In fact I'm even
> hesitant to send the change to TT). Also remember that all of these
> three problems lasted for quite some time, before somebody finally found
> out a way how to reproduce them, showed it to me and I hunted the bug
> down. Making the default the way it was intented to work with X11 should
> take care of possible problems with KDE3.1.

Come on... if something is buggy, you fix it, you don't run away from it.  
Hiding buggy things won't get them fixed.

> - completely nuking the 'implicit selection' feature, called 'When the
> clipboard is set, set the selection as well' in Klipper, as it simply
> doesn't make any sense to me
>
>  Really, I don't see the purpose of this. If I'm going to put some text
> in clipboard, I will usually have to select it first using the mouse,
> i.e. it goes in selection anyway, so why setting it explicitly? Unless
> somebody has a good explanation why this mode is useful, I'd really like
> to see it gone.

Well, that's nice that you don't see the point.  But is it hurting you any?

> - completely nuking the 'synchronizing' feature
>
>  (I'd really like to, really). I' afraid there would be enough people
> willing to have this, no matter how many things this would break, so I
> don't think you'd let me. Still, at least for the record, could somebody
> explain why this is actually useful, and why does it have to be two-way
> and not only selection->clipboard?
>
>
>  In fact we'd probably need some document explaining how the
> clipboard/selection are supposed to work. E.g. according to ICCCM[1]
> there's only THE selection, one and only - in other words, if you select
> something in one app, it should be the only selected thing in the whole
> session, the app with previously selected text should deselect. Yet this
> doesn't always happen, and also often selecting using shift+arrows does
> set the selection, even though there is something selected. This is
> inconsistent, and moreover it's pretty annoying (the deselecting, that
> is).
>
>  It'd be probably good also to agree on some interpretation with other
> (Gtk+ etc.) people and update the description text at [2]. Having more
> apps supporting some reasonable behaviour could also help with some
> Klipper related problems (like when working with Emacs and having large
> selected text).
>
>  Feel free to comment. But before you do, I ask you to read at least
> [2]. There are simply some things that can't be done with X, and there's
> no point in discussing what-if scenarios. I'd also like to explicitly
> point out that selection and clipboard are usually considered to be
> orthogonal (well, besides those people who got too much used to the
> broken Qt2 behaviour). I'd also appreciate if you answered my questions
> before you start to argue.

And now we have your true motivation.  You're just trying to remove feature 
to attempt to bully all KDE users into using the clipboard the way *you* 
want them to, despite the fact that countless KDE users might be perfectly 
happy with the KDE 2 clipboard behavior.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"The nearest I can make it out, 'Love your Enemies' means, 'Hate your
Friends'." - Benjamin Franklin
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