An addition to the clipboard specification

[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 11:55, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> > > > > I created a patch which sharpens the current specification in the
> > > > > way I was requesting.
> > > > >
> > > > >  - when PRIMARY is set, any selection visualization regarding
> > > > >    the old selection (conceptually showing former content of
> > > > >    primary) should be cleared
> > > >
> > > > This may be the traditional way, but it can be also pretty annoying
> > > > (people don't select things just in order to copy&paste them)
>
> This was the least important (consistency) improvement in my opinion.
> I just included it because, it was in the original bug report
> which claimed it as the original way and I did not see a problem
> in the behavior. I'm still not sure that it has a problem, but getting
> the other (more obvious) improvements into the specification seems a lot
> more important. So, this email includes a new patch without the
> selection clearing feature.

 Looks ok to me, so unless there are objections, I suggest adding these 
changes.

>
> However, I hope that the discussion will continue, so that the clearing
> behavior can one day be standardized. We could recommend supporting both
> ways and leaving the final choice to user. Even in that case, we would
> have to name the default behavior (i.e. setting).
>
>   --Toni

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