mmb pasting in Konqueror

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Saturday 17 May 2003 11:58, Datschge wrote:
> (1)
>
> > mmb click loading the URL in the clipboard or searching for a non-URL
> > string in the clipboard is non-obvious and unintuitive
>
> Wrong, it's fully consistent with the globally standardized "mmb click" ==
> "clipboard paste" behavior.

I disagree. It doesn't paste anything, it loads another page.

> (2)
>
> > html pages are read-only, it makes no sense that pasting on them changes
> > them
>
> What you do by mmb paste is the same as when clicking on a link: you
> request another page. Neither of them involves "changing a read-only page".

I diagree. There is a rather big difference between "opening a link in another 
window" (Which is what mmb on a link does) and "opening the url in the 
selection buffer in the current window". The former is an action that is 
taken usually with the intention to preserve the contents of the current 
window while the latter replace the contents of the current window.

> > this feature is non standard, highly unexpeted, dangerous, utterly
> > confusing, work loosing, some websites don't let you go back
>
> It's standard mmb paste behavior and as such easy to understand for
> everyone who knows the standard mmb paste behavior. 

Although it is certainly standard behavior for webbrowsers on Unix, I don't 
think it can be described as the standard mmb paste behavior. Standard mmb 
paste behavior inserts text at the point of the mmb click, this feature 
doesn't.

Cheers,
Waldo
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