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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Fwd:  clipboard behaviour
From:       Joseph Manojlovich <josephm () mail ! sis ! pitt ! edu>
Date:       2002-07-01 20:15:46
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Yeah, that was my first complaint too. However, the benefits for users
from the other desktop operating systems will appreciate this
unknowningly, as their familiar clipboard mental model still works fine
on KDE 3.

There should be an option for power users to tell KDE to use just one
clipboard though, if you ask me, for the very reasons you mention
here.

If you think about it though, the ctrl+c/ctrl+v in KDE 2 was actually
worthless. Just the very act of selecting the text copied it to the
clipboard -- clicking on Copy in the edit menu was just redundant (did
this even do anything at all in KDE 2?).

All in all, I think the 2 clipboard idea is probably the best overall
comprimise, especially if there is the option to only use 1.

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Monday July 01, 2002 12:51, Joseph Manojlovich wrote:
> > Yeah, I've done some more soul-searching after my last email, and I
> > already agree with what you say. I only feel that if there are to be 2
> > clipboards, they need to be kept completely separate from each other:
> 
> That would make things even worse for people who liked KDE 2.  Right now we 
> can manually go around to every app that uses the clipboard and have it 
> dump data onto both.  If we did that, then KDE 3 would be made to feel 
> unusable for many of us.  All the habits we've learned would be trashed.

--
Joe Manojlovich
josephm@sis.pitt.edu
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~josephm
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