[Konsole-devel] clipboard behaviour

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:55 am, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > 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. ;-)

Selecting text should not destroy the copy/paste clipboard. I don't propose to 
add a ctrl-c shortcut for copy.

> > 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.

Indeed, they expect a single clipboard accessible via copy&paste. But konsole 
does not have a copy actin available.

> kde-usability brainstorming tries to replace people feedback. Did you ask?

I will ask.

Cheers,
Waldo
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