Emmanuele, did you watch his video?
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi; > > thanks for your email. > > GTK+, as a project, tracks bugs and enhancements in Bugzilla - > https://Bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk%2b - instead of the > mailing list, which is only meant for discussion. > > Additionally, the latest stable version of GTK+ is 3.20, and we plan to > release GTK+ 3.22 by next month. > > We still (optionally) support the PRIMARY selection on the X11 backend, > and some compatibility layer for it on Wayland, but we have no plans on > adding support for the SECONDARY selection, as it's both barely specified > and, like the PRIMARY, highly confusing for anybody who is not well-versed > in 20+ years of use of textual interfaces on the X Windows > System. Personally, I would have jettisoned the PRIMARY selection a long > time ago as well, but apparently a very vocal minority is still holding > tight to that particular Easter egg. Adding support for the even more > esoteric SECONDARY selection on the X11 backend when we're trying to move > the Linux world towards the more modern and less legacy-ridden Wayland > display system would be problematic to say the least, and an ill fit for > the majority of graphical user experiences in use these days. > > It should be entirely possible to add support for the SECONDARY selection > inside specific applications, like text editors; or in specific libraries, > like VTE for terminal emulators. It would definitely make more sense than > trying to apply it to all text entry widgets in GTK+. > > Ciao, > Emmanuele. > > > On Saturday, 20 August 2016, Charles Lindsey <c...@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote: > >> For over 20 years, I have been using the secondary-selection (a standard >> feature of the X-Windows system) when editing texts, using the Solaris >> operating system on Sun Hardware. Recently, I have switched to Linux on i86 >> hardware, and have been horrified to find that this valuable feature is not >> supported by modern toolkits and editors. The world seems to have forgotten >> what it was meant for, and yet I believe it is the best thing since sliced >> bread. >> >> This is not the place to explain what the secondary-selection does, and >> why it should be used more widely. To see that, I invite you to visit my >> website at >> http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/secondary-selection.html >> which I hope will persuade you that something needs to be done about it. >> >> Furthermore, to illustrate how it is used, I have implemented an >> Experimental Extension to GTK-3 so that people can try it out for >> themselves and to see how useful it can be for constructing texts (and >> particularly program texts, where there is a common requirement to grab >> existing bits of code - perhaps even just identifiers - from other places, >> whether in the same document or from outside). >> >> My implementation is based on gtk+-3.10.8, because I am using Ubuntu >> 14.04LTS "Trusty Tahr", though it may well work on other Linux versions. >> Yes I know 3.10.8 is ancient, but I don't expect my code, which is pretty >> hairy, to be fit for immediate incorporation in current versions of gtk. >> But it now works well enough for it to be tested more widely, and if people >> like it, then I would be happy to join the Developer Team and to do the job >> properly. >> >> So I invite you guys to look at my website, download my code and give it >> a try. I am also making this known on various other lists, because unless >> people try it out (and hopefully like it), there can be no pressure to take >> it further. >> >> Share and Enjoy! >> >> -- >> Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own >> thing------------------------ >> Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: >> http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl >> Email: c...@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 SK8 3JU, U.K. >> PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 >> AB A5 >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-devel-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list >> > > > -- > https://www.bassi.io > [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > >
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