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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: An innovative(?) idea: Wait-for-copy
From:       Alistair Davidson <lord_inh () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-05-15 22:28:14
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William Leese wrote:
> 
> Sounds great, both idea's that is. So basically you have:
> 
> c&p as we know it
> 
> 'paste-points' - where you'd mark your cursor location, then select what you 
> want to copy and finally you'd probably jump back to the application window 
> where you pasted to
> 
> 'sticky paste-points' - same as above but without the jumping back until a 
> certain key combination / context menu item is selected

My worry is how this will fit into the metaphor of copy-and-paste. 
Copying something and then pasting it is a very simple action, we need 
to ensure that any additional functions also correspond to simple actions.

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