Keyboard Selection and the Copy/Paste Buffer

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 15:50, Jamethiel Knorth wrote:

> For examples of where this is currently being done differently:
> 
> OpenOffice: treats mouse and keyboard selections the same.
> Mozilla: treats mouse and keyboard selections the same.
> Qt Widgets: ignore keyboard selections.
> GTK Widgets: fail on both keyboard and mouse selections.

Fail how? To my knowledge GTK+ corresponds 100% to the explanation as
currently posted. (Which makes no difference between mouse and
keyboard selection.)

Now, we could argue whether the spec is the right user behavior,
and in fact you can find a lot of discussion of that in the
archives of the list...

Regards,
					Owen

> AbiWord: treats mouse and keyboard selections the same.
> KWrite: treats mouse and keyboard selections the same.
> The GIMP: fails on keyboard selections.
> KWord: ignores keyboard selections.
> 
> This is a significant inconsistency problem in how the cut/copy/paste buffer 
> is treated, and it is apparently not addressed anywhere.

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