[Konsole-devel] clipboard behaviour

[Stephan Binner]

On Friday 28 June 2002 21:33, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> I have come to the conclusion that the current clipboard behaviour of
> konsole is broken. It might be ok if you look at konsole in isolation but
> desktop-wide it causes inconsistency which IMO outweighs any benefits.

I didn't see much protest against this yet. On the contrary only requests for
it (C. Pfeiffer, posting on dot.kde.org). What other r/o-widgets are in KDE?

> So I would like to remove the "automatically copy to clipboard" feature and
> add a "Copy" action instead.

And default shortcut should be? We need a good one. Don't say Ctrl-c ;-)...

> a) It makes assumptions about the user's intention

Arguable, what could he do other than copying? Only to keep his clipboard?

> b) it breaks the clipboard model that ctrl-c copies to the clipboard and
>    selecting copies to the selection-clipboard.

That wouldn't be fixed by your proposed change. No, no Ctrl-c shortcut. ;-)

> c) users from a non-unix background search for "copy" and can't find it.
> So this could very well contribute to the overall perception that "the
> clipboard is broken", it's very hard to tell without detailed feedback
> from people what annoys them about the current clipboard behaviour.

Non-unix background people don't even expect two independent clipboards.
kde-usability brainstorming tries to replace people feedback. Did you ask?

Bye,
   Steve