Cut, Copy and Paste [was : Re: Some bugs...]

[Duane Voth]

> From: Richard Dale [SMTP:Richard_Dale at tipitina.demon.co.uk]
> List: kde-kdevelop
> 
> I don't like the KDE/X Window behaviour where just selecting some text
> automatically puts it onto the pasteboard. ... On every other windowing
> system I've used ... Mac OS, OpenStep, Windows [ctrl-C places text into
> the pasteboard]. I find this really inconvenient
(and from another email)
> ... the solution was to change KDevelop - it has some code which automatically
> copies the current selection to the clipboard when the mouse is released in the
> editor. So here is a patch to kdevelop-1.0beta3 to make this behaviour optional.
> I've added a new 'Auto Copy' option to the 'Options->Editor...' menu.

I find all the Windowing environments you have used to be highly
annoying
with respect to the additional keys required to place text in the
cut-buffer.  And so you have my deepest thanks for making the feature
optional!

My only suggestion now is that "Auto Copy" is hard to spot when
searching
for the old behavior.  Since it will likely only be us old X11 hacks
using
this feature, allow me to propose the option label "X11 mouse
selections"
or if window manager names are not appropriate in such places,
"mouse selects copy".

And this configuration feature does indeed apply across applications,
I agree, KDE is a better place for it.

duane