From kde-core-devel  Fri Nov 01 20:34:31 2002
From: Martijn Klingens <klingens () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 20:34:31 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Clipboard for the dummies
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On Friday 01 November 2002 20:46, Michael Brade wrote:
> 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).

That has a tiny downside though: if you _want_ that part in Selection you have 
to explicitly reselect it, or press shift-left, shift-right to force the 
selection to be a manual one instead. Or does ctrl-c also copy to Selection 
in this case?
-- 
Martijn