[Konsole-devel] [Bug 240335] Konsole should update selection on QClipboard::selectionChanged(), like xterm does

[Jekyll Wu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240335





--- Comment #10 from Jekyll Wu <adaptee gmail com>  2011-10-24 16:01:37 ---
The requested behavior is not hard to implement in Konsole(I made a quick
experiment), but I do not like it:

1). It cause some minor side effects. For example, select something in tab #1,
then switch to tab #2 and select something, then the color of tab #1 will
change which indicates activity within tab #1 while there is actually no
activity there. Of course, this is really an implementation problem which can
be solved.

2). Even if we put extra effort to make the implementation better, there is
still the issue of consistency with other KDE apps. From my observation, most
Qt/KDE apps behave in the reported way, while most gtk/gnome apps behave in the
requested way. I do not think it is a good idea for Konsole to behave
differently as long as it is still part of KDE. 

3). Even if we put the consistency issue aside, we still have the problem of
"which behavior is better from the point view of users?". Since this report do
not have many votes or comments, I guess most users like current behavior or
simply do not care. Make the behavior configurable? I think that is overkill,
since the current behavior is not a problem in most conditions.

Just my 2 cents.

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