Re: (no subject)

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday 14 April 2006 00:44, Rodney Dawes wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 21:07 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: In case you are referring to xdg-mime from the xdg-utils package, it does whatever the running desktop's utility does :) I am referring to that, yes. But what does it do, if one is

Re: xdg-mime (Was: (no subject))

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday 14 April 2006 09:26, Bastian, Waldo wrote: Yes, that's a good point. The shared mime spec is definitly where we want to go and it would be an ill-adviced decision for a desktop to come up with a different way. Xdg-mime is in the first place a way to speed up that transition process

An addition to the clipboard specification

2006-04-14 Thread Toni Ruottu
Hi I'm hoping Freedesktop.org clipboard specification/explanation [1] could be extended to cover the behavior described in a bug report [2] filed by Zack Weinberg for GTK+. The description doesn't conflict with the current specification in any way, while it gives a sane and consistent way of

Re: An addition to the clipboard specification

2006-04-14 Thread Thiago Macieira
Toni Ruottu wrote: Hi I'm hoping Freedesktop.org clipboard specification/explanation [1] could be extended to cover the behavior described in a bug report [2] filed by Zack Weinberg for GTK+. The description doesn't conflict with the current specification in any way, while it gives a sane and

Re: An addition to the clipboard specification

2006-04-14 Thread Toni Ruottu
Hi, and thanks for your response. I strongly oppose to #4. If you require that functionality, it's fairly simple to run a PRIMARY-CLIPBOARD synchroniser program. You got it wrong. It was not about synchronizing! Synchronizing would be a _very_ bad thing to do. The described way was a _one

Re: An addition to the clipboard specification

2006-04-14 Thread Thiago Macieira
Toni Ruottu wrote: The description in bug report is the historical way. You may still tell us why your way is better and why the old way would block it. Usability reasons are more important than legacy reasons. How ever usability reasons are also more important than custom usage habbits or

Re: An addition to the clipboard specification

2006-04-14 Thread Toni Ruottu
Hi again. My usage is that I do use them as two separate entities. When I select with the mouse, I will paste with the MMB. When I Ctrl+C, I Ctrl+V. This is especially interesting when using the clipboard to replace stuff: select with mouse (sets PRIMARY), Ctrl+C (sets CLIPBOARD), select