From kde-usability Sun Jun 30 17:40:23 2002 From: Joseph Manojlovich Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:40:23 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Fwd: [Konsole-devel] clipboard behaviour X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=102545892911958 Am I the only one who finds this behavior extremely annoying? It seems that I'm always smashing heads with this system. Example, just now, I wanted to copy a web page from Konq into Kate, so I selected-all and copied using the Konq menu (no "copy" entry in Konq's right mouse menu ?) and middle-mouse-clicked in Kate, only to get the last line I selected while in Konsole. I don't care that there are two ways to select and paste text, that's great and all, but why does there have to be a different clipboard for each? I can't think of another GUI that does this, and even KDE 2 didn't. Why exactly can't both techniques share the same clipboard? I suppose everything works fine so long as you don't mix techniques like I tend to, but I don't think that should be a problem. On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Waldo Bastian wrote: > Originally sent to konsole-devel, resent here for discussion. See the second > forwarded message for a description of the current konsole copy&paste > behaviour. For those not aware, we have two clipboards in KDE 3.x, the > "selection-clipboard" which is copied to whenever you select something with > the mouse and which can be pasted from with MMB, and the "ctrl-c/ctrl-v > clipboard" which is copied to by selecting text and then pressing ctrl-c (or > Edit->Copy) and pasted from by pressing ctrl-v (or Edit->Paste). > > Konsole can not use ctrl-c or ctrl-v for anything because it needs to pass > these keys to the applicatin running in konsole, e.g. ctrl-c is normally used > to interrupt program execution. -- Joe Manojlovich josephm@sis.pitt.edu http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~josephm "I'm sorry, but I cannot divulge information about that customer's secret illegal account." _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability