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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Konsole-devel] clipboard behaviour
From:       Joseph Manojlovich <josephm () mail ! sis ! pitt ! edu>
Date:       2002-06-30 17:40:23
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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
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