Den 20. juli 2016 08:33, skrev Scott Kostyshak:
Dear LyX users,
I'm implementing a very small feature and before I proceed further I
would like to get a little feedback. I have two questions that are
relevant if you have more than one document open in LyX, using tabs.
1a. What do you *expect* to happen if you middle-click on a tab?
Middle-click is "paste", it pastes the current selection into whatever
the mouse cursor is over. A very useful feature of X11, one can quickly
mark & paste stuff without having to use "ctrl+c" or menu choices like
"copy" and "paste". A nice and extremely quick way of getting text from
one place to another. Works inside LyX, and works between LyX and other
programs (web browsers, terminals, ...)
Middle-clicking inside the main window pastes at the location
clicked.Middle-clicking anywhere text can be entered, will paste text there.
Middle-clicking on a tab does not provide a location, only which
document to paste into. So I would expect the current selection to be
pasted into the current cursor position of the document in that tab.
1b. What do you think *should* happen?
Pasting into another document than the active one may be useful, but
dangerous if the user don't see what happens. So perhaps LyX should
switch to that document so the user don't get surprised later. Or
perhaps this should only work for the active tab?
2a. What do you *expect* to happen if you middle-click on the space to the
right of the tabs? I'm referring to the blank space where if you had
more tabs it would take that space up.
Nothing - pasting anything there makes no sense. If I want a context
menu, I'll right-click.
2b. What do you think *should* happen?
Nothing. Unless you can come up with something useful? To be intuitive,
it'd have to be paste-related?
Note that making every part of the screen sensitive to clicks & drags is
unpleasant. It is nice to have some places where a click/drag is not
"dangerous" - so one can click to raise/focus the window (or check if it
has focus already). But this applies more to the left button.
Helge Hafting
