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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Interesting article
From:       "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" <yannaigo () leyada ! jlm ! k12 ! il>
Date:       1998-09-30 17:45:35
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David Sweet wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> >At 00:13 30.9.1998 -0400, Antal wrote:
> >>I was just looking through a stack of old PC World magazines when I came
> >>upon an interesting article on the inconsistency in Winblows; I thought it
> >>might be of some use to try to focus our efforts for KDE on ease of use
> >>and consistency in the UI:
> >>
> >>http://www.pcworld.com/current_issue/article/0,1212,7227,00.html
> >
> >Interesting reading.
> >
> >Esp. the single-vs-double click thingy. This is a problem we also have.
> >I mean that the apps are split into those that use single- and those that
> >use double click in various cases.  Not the base apps, but many others.
> >I have no solution... just this thought :-)
> >
> >--Stefan
> 
> I'm just about to look at the article, but before reading I can say that some
> KDE apps use the standard select-text-to-copy method of X and some
> require you to select-text and choose Edit->Copy (like Windows).  I
> really think all apps should support the standard X way of doing this.  I
> guess all one really needs to do is to copy selected text when the focus
> is lost...not too tough.

When the mouse button is released, not when focus is lost. (someone can
copy+paste to and from the same window).


Regards,
Yannai.

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