From kde-bugs-dist  Tue Apr 30 18:08:57 2002
From: henrik () fangorn ! dk
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:08:57 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#41987: Copy-paste functionality - Windows-compatible option Good
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Package: kdesktop
Version: KDE 3.0.0 
Severity: wishlist
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not really important, it's the intended functionality I'm looking at.

The default Copy & Paste functionality (also in X, I suppose) copies merely by marking text, no Ctrl-C needed. In many professional contexts that is not a very handy functionality - personally I do much language versioning of programs, and replacing a string with another language is just much handier under Windows. The recent BundesTux initiative also highlighted this issue.

I suggest that the Windows-compatible behaviour be made a configuration option. Should be easy to code and good for lots of plain users.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)