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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Sick of the mouse mess!
From:       Richard Stevens <mail () richardstevens ! de>
Date:       2002-02-16 12:37:12
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> quite the contrary: I think it's not very intuitive taht a mouse selection
> overwrites your clibpboard selection. quite often I want to copy some text
> aand then replace some other text with it. Now if there's only only one
> cliboard I cant do that because selecting the second text to be
> overwritten kills my clipboard selection.
> I think it's much more intuitive if only seletions you ordered to be in
> the clipboard are actually there, plus it's the way windows users are used
> to do it.

Well, this is right for people coming from the non UNIX world. But, the other 
behaviour IS the UNIX way. It's what people got used to. Selecting text with 
the mouse automatically copies the selection to the clipboard. Even though it 
might not be intuitive for some people it definately is very efficient.


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