From kde-core-devel Thu Oct 31 10:38:36 2002 From: Lubos Lunak Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:38:36 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Clipboard problems (yes, again) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103606071602173 On Thursday 31 October 2002 11:25, Hasso Tepper wrote: > David Faure wrote: > > > Paste to Konsole from clipboard is Shit+Insert, from selection > > > Ctrl+Shift+Insert. Why it is this way? Syncing was the only way > > > for my coworkers using KDE to get back old behavior "select > > > something with mouse and paste it with Shift+Insert" they were > > > using for years. Or I just don't know other way to do it? Is > > > there any other way? > > > > If they select with the mouse, why don't they paste with the mouse > > (MMB)? This feels much more consistent than "select with mouse, > > paste with Shift+Insert". > > I think you know how hard it is to change habits :). These guys work > mostly with keyboard. Copying with mouse is one of the very few > things they do with mouse. If you select something from xterm and > want to paste it to texteditor you have to move mouse exactly to this > line to where you want to paste. When you don't do it, cursor is > moved to another line and selection is pasted there - wrong place. It > is much faster to move just focus to window where to want paste and > press Shift+Insert. Hmm. I'd say this counts as a sufficient reason to keep selection->clipboard syncing as an option. Not that it would help in this xterm case, the functionality would have to move back to Klipper from KClipboard. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 2 9654 2374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/