From kde-core-devel  Fri Nov 01 19:46:57 2002
From: Michael Brade <brade () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 19:46:57 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Clipboard for the dummies
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=46irst of all, 100% agreed with all that David said, yes to all points. To=
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the following is most important: only add something to the clipboard if the=
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user invoked the selection. _Never ever_ use automatically selected things=
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like lineedits in dialogs or the selections done by the autocompletion=20
feature for Ctrl-V or MMB. Those selections are IMO no real selections, jus=
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to be able to delete them with only one keystroke (Del, for example).

On Friday 01 November 2002 15:01, David Faure wrote:
> My new reasoning
> would be more along the lines of: what the user _voluntarily_ selects gets
> copied. So mouse + keyboard put the selected text into the "selection",
> but auto-select by lineedits wouldn't.
Yep. Users can't distinguish between making a selection by mouse or by=20
Shif+Arrows. (And I can't, either ;-)

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