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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Clipboard for the dummies
From:       Michael Brade <brade () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-11-01 19:46:57
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First of all, 100% agreed with all that David said, yes to all points. To me 
the following is most important: only add something to the clipboard if the 
user invoked the selection. _Never ever_ use automatically selected things 
like lineedits in dialogs or the selections done by the autocompletion 
feature for Ctrl-V or MMB. Those selections are IMO no real selections, just 
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 
Shif+Arrows. (And I can't, either ;-)

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