-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 November 2002 19:24, Richard Bos wrote: > Op zaterdag 2 november 2002 16:23, schreef Christoph Cullmann: > > I don't see any case where the automagically mouse/keyboard selection would > > hurt usergroup 2, as they simply don't know and don't use it (and if they > > try it and don't like it, they can simply don't use it, won't hurt them, or > > ?), but usergroup 1 (like me and others) would be hurt very much if we > > abandon the selection thing. > > > > Why break something that many people are used to, only to avoid that new > > people don't use it ? I don't think it will confuse any new user, as the > > selection don't overwrite the clipboard and won't break their "from > > windows" known CTRL-C/V stuff. > > Well said Christoph. I know many people that are used to the copy and paste > using the mouse (MMB). It would hurt me and those people, if the -V > etc alone would be supported by KDE! So, please keep on supporting copy and > paste using the mouse (MMB)! I think it was never question of completely removing the lmb/mmb stuff. But the question was rather: *if* lmb/mmb also requires "unique global selection", i.e. selecting something unselects the previously selected text, even in another application (as is currently the case), *then* this might confuse the "windows" users, who don't use lmb/mmb but want to be allowed multiple selections (e.g. one per window). In that case one might think of an option, to choose whether selections are global or per-window. The X11 way is: global, which makes it a bit easier to use lmb/mmb (you know what mmb is going to insert), and the windows way is per-window - lmb/mmb would still work, IMHO, just in a slightly more confusing way (multiple selections). - -- David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/ Get the latest KOffice - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9xB6s72KcVAmwbhARAvSPAJ9jWYnb7NBWAyeKQn9UjVYMzXVc8ACgn/ya n5sXG/BVLUCh9P9qE7NqnwI= =nC22 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----