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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE1.1.2/PATCH: kfm (#1590)
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-08-13 20:53:59
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Waldo Bastian wrote:

> Hi Dawit,
>
> Did you manage to have a look at this?

Yes, but it is not done yet.  Your patch gave me
another idea. sigh ;-)  I will be working on it in
few minutes.  I will have something very soon ...

Regards,
Dawit A.

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > Please test the following patch so that I can commit it.
>

> > Please do not commit this patch yet.  The problem is much bigger than bug# 1590 !!
> > The root cause of it is the duplicated code to handle copy/paste/delete/moveToTrash
> >
> > operations from the Edit menu and the popup menu's.  The other reason is one of
> > functionality. Since KFM has dual personality ( browse pages/file management ), you
> >
> > have to test for every possible kind of selection combination ( URLs only, Text
> > only,
> > URLs and text etc ).  I will post more details on this subject as soon as I get a
> > chance
> > ( tonight or in tomorrow morning).
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dawit A.
> >
> >
> > > -- Bug report 1590 --
> > >
> > > Package: klipper
> > > Version: 0.1
> > >
> > > When attempt to cut and paste a block of text from a web page (browsing using
> > > kfm), if that block contains a URL, when I attempt to paste it into a number of
> > > other applications (I've tried kedit and kmail composer as well as kjots), only
> > > the URL is pasted into the new application.
> > >
> > > I recognize that this may not be a klipper bug -- maybe klipper is only a
> > > history log.  (Sorry I can't give better diagnostic information. I'm an
> > > "end-user" user -- not a programmer (though we're trying to fix that,
> > > Kernighan and Ritchie are on my reading table.)).
> > >
> > > Lisa Williams
> > >
> > > PS.  Just upgraded to 1.1.1 and I think it's fantastic.  I'm due to delete my
> > > Windows partition any day now.  Keep up the good work.
> > >
> > > -- End of bugreport --

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