<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:07 AM Thiago Macieira <<a href="mailto:thiago@kde.org">thiago@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
It can probably be implemented reasonably easily. It won't be a very <br>
discoverable feature, though, so is it worth it?<br><br></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>It's is an accessibility feature, and not the least relevant one, I suspect. So if it ever gets implemented, big desktop systems should mention it in their accessibility dialogs. That way it'd actually becomes a bit more discoverable. </div></div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure many know the problem. So yes, it's worth mentioning in the 'standard' - in a way that makes explicit that everything copy-paste could be done without a keyboard. Specifically that you could paste over previously selected text. On the contrary the document presently states:</div><div><br></div><div>" [...] you should be able to select text, then paste the clipboard</div><div> over it, but that doesn't work if the selection and</div><div> clipboard are the same [...] "</div><div><br></div><div>.. as a point why middle-mouse-paste is flawed, which I find biased and misleading.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I checked a lot of programs for said desired behaviour and almost all of them only have to implement the second point from my original mail, which is as easy as:</div><div> -> middle click on a text selection does the same as ctrl-v (i.e. replace the selection, that's it.)</div><div><br></div><div>(I found only the 'web view'-widget of chrome would have to to do the other point as well.)</div><div><br></div><div>Since the thread got a bit distracted, I summarize my arguments in a silly bullet point list :)</div><div> - everything copy-paste possible by means of mouse only</div><div> - no new paradigm</div><div> - no existing workflow breakage</div><div> - improving a unique selling point of linux on desktop</div><div> - half of it is required by wayland anyways and implemented by most clients already..</div><div> - ..the rest is very little and easy</div><div> - accessibility feature almost for free</div><div><br></div><div>(I also thought of a way on how to do it with triple and more clicks without relying on letting a timeout run out)</div><div><br></div><div>Can I perhaps accelerate coming to a consensus with a reference implementation?</div><div><br></div><div>cheers, Johannes</div><div> </div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>