[TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 17 juin 2008 à 22:06 +0200, François Revol a écrit :
> > > And please have a setting to make one default desktop-side. 
> > > Formatted
> > > text cut & pasting is a major plague in OO.o, one is always wasting
> > > time un-formatting the result to avoid style contamination.
> 
> You know Shift-Ctrl-v in OOo proposes you a list of formats before 
> pasting, just select plain text there.

Which wastes almost as much time when you're cut and pasting every 2
minutes.

The fact is, applications and documents have very different ideas of
what formatted text is (I write documents because in OO.o the style
space is document-specific, so two documents from the same app may
disagree). That means that except for quick and dirty casual cut and
paste, where you don't care about the result correctness, and just want
a good enough approximation, formatted text cut & paste is almost always
wrong. It usually takes more time to untangle the mess "rich" text cut &
paste creates than to reformat starting from plain text.

So if formatted text cut & pasted text is generalized:
1. it must be de-activable desktop-wide
2. it must not move plain text cut and paste to some other shortcut
3. avoiding it must not rely on an inefficient dialog that asks to
select from a list

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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