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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Konsole-devel] clipboard behaviour
From:       Joseph Manojlovich <josephm () mail ! sis ! pitt ! edu>
Date:       2002-07-01 19:55:31
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One more thing, I would just as well say get rid of the support for the
standard X clipboard, and settle solely on the Windows/Mac style,
except for all the non-KDE apps that aren't aware of this system.

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> GNOME and netscape behave the same as KDE3 in this regard.
> 
> Using the same clipboard as we did in KDE2 breaks the ctrl-c/ctrl-v copy/paste
> behaviour: Imagine two applications A and B, you select something in A, copy 
> it to the clipboard, now you select something in B and choose "Paste" to 
> replace it with the clipboard contents.
> 
> What happens?
> 
> If you have a single clipboard for both selection and clipboard the selection 
> you made in B will be copied to the clipboard and when you paste it, it will 
> replace the selection with itself instead of replacing it with the data from 
> A that you explicitly copied to the clipboard.

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Joe Manojlovich
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