[Annoyances] X-Windows Copy & Paste

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:44, John Meacham wrote:
> I guess the essence of the proposal is:
>
> all apps which allow selection must either:
>         have an explicit copy operation in a standard place -or-

Yes

>            set both PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD on selection

No

> the essence of the whole thing is :
>
> GRAND THEORY STATEMENT:
>
> apps which set CLIPBOARD _MUST_ set PRIMARY

That's open for discussion.

> apps which set PRIMARY _MUST_ provide a mechanism (explicit or inplicit)
> for setting CLIPBOARD

Explicit, yes. Implicit, no.

> when thought about that way, the interopability benefits are pretty
> clear.
>
> xterm just happened to be a good example of a program which did this
> wrong by default.
>
> this doesn't affect people who like everything to be all GUIy with
> edit menus and whatnot, it is so apps without explicit edit menus
> can co-behave with apps that do have them in a sane fashion.

Apps without explicit menus can still use explicit key shortcuts.

Cheers,
Waldo
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