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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Cut, Copy context menu in konqueror
From:       Robert Davies <rob_davies () ntlworld ! com>
Date:       2003-09-04 12:57:25
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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

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