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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Sick of the mouse mess!
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2002-02-16 19:24:02
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On Saturday 16 February 2002 19:32, Kuba Ober wrote:
> I also think that ^C should do nothing more than set a (newly
> introduced) default_selection = blah flag in klipper that the next
> paste will be the one that was last selected before the ^C was
> pressed (i.e. that further selections will be noticed by klipper, but
> not choosen as
> default-for-pasting) - the drop down list for the next paste is
> automaticly disabled as well. After the paste, the default_selection
> gets reverted to -1, so it's ignored.

This sounds like a nice idea. But why should the default_selection be 
reset to -1 after a paste? This makes multiple pastings impossible and 
would therefore be very annoying. The default_selection could simply be 
left untouched until something else is copied via ^C.

The mmb stuff is IMO much to complicated and completely unnecessary as 
people who want to paste via mmb know that always the last selected 
text is pasted. Furthermore pasting the last selected text would be 
slowed down because everytime the clipboard selection would be shown 
before the text is pasted. This would suck very much.

IMO an ideal solution would be your default_selection idea (for Windows 
style copy&paste) and the normal Unix behaviour (for Unix style 
copy&paste).

> I presume it would be useful for me to write a patch for that and
> submit for testing, right?
> Would changes against kde 2.2.2 be fine, or is klipper changed too
> much in 3.0?

Klipper has changed a lot. But anyway, the decision has already been 
made and klipper now has two clipboards, the selection clipboard and 
the copy/paste clipboard. It's possible to synchronize them (this will 
give you approx. the KDE 2 behaviour) or to separate them.

Regards,
Ingo
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