From kfm-devel Thu Sep 04 12:57:25 2003 From: Robert Davies Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:57:25 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: Cut, Copy context menu in konqueror X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=106268029515824 Picked up this thread from it's coverage in KDE Traffic #63 For 1 Sep, http://kt.zork.net/kde/kde20030901_63.html#2. Sorry, if I'm inprecise on KDE lingo, but I only joined the list today to contribute a point, which wasn't considered in the thread. Klipper supports ignoring selections, which permits you to seperate Copy&Paste buffer for Select/Middle button paste, and Copy/Paste context menus, and gain finer control of klipboard contents. The feature was newly supported with Qt3/KDE3 as a standardistion with other environments. Unfortunately that effort is compromised because Konqueror lacks Copy in the Context menu, copying sections from web pages is a very common operation, and is very inconsistent with other KDE programs (though KMail has same issue). As for bloat in Context menu, more serious are application entries like 'Create Data CD with k3b' which appears in SuSE-8, and Gentoo. There seems to be fair amount of features, that have been added into KDE over time, to cover the lack of seperation between Selection Copy/Paste buffers. The Delete button next to Location (not present other browsers) and the intelligent pasting (new in 3.1?) when item is highlighted are examples. Most of time, it just works like magic :), still having Context Menu Copy/Paste available seperate is correct following principal of least surprise, and is cleaner and easier to explain to users. Regards Rob