On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 02:50:30PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So is getting the folks at TrollTech to follow the spec, or getting the
> > KDE folks to pressure the folks at TrollTech to follow the spec,
> > something that freedesktop.org can address?
>
> Hrm, I could send them mail. I kind of suspect it's a FAQ though, I'm
> sure they've had people bring it up before...
Well, there's a couple of messages on qt-interest from back in late
1997:
Subject: Paste to Motif
From: Ross Linder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - other postings
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 16:29:46 +0200 (SAT)
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Using Motif 2.0 I can highlight text in a XmTextField using MB1 and
drop it into any QtLineEdit using the center mouse button.
From a Qt application I can highlight the text (somnewhat less
successfully as tripple clicks don't work :-( ) BUT it won't
paste into any text fields
This is a problem as I begin migrating from Motif to Qt since most of
my applications are still in Motif.
/Ross
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Subject: Re: Paste to Motif
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - other postings
Date: 12 Nov 1997 15:44:22 +0100
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I just tried pasting it in motif style, and it works just like Motif
for me.
Perhaps you tried in in Windows style? Qt works like Windows in
Windows style - you have to press control-c to copy the marked text to
the clipboard.
--Arnt
I don't know whether that behavior is a consequence of Qt "copying the
marked text to the clipboard" by making the PRIMARY selection, but not
the CLIPBOARD selection, refer to it, or not.
(That was found by a search for "clipboard" on Troll Tech's Web site.
No obvious FAQ-like items were found, but maybe some of the
documentation items it found mention it.
The Qt technical FAQ at
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faq/tech.html
doesn't mention the clipboard at all.
I shall see if I can find any KDE FAQs that mention it.)
I *really* wonder whether anybody's asked them why, if you pop up two
"kedit"s, select some text in one of them, copy it with the "Edit->Copy"
menu item, select some *other* text in it, and then do a paste with
"Edit->Paste" in the other "kedit", it pastes the *selected* text, not
the *copied* text. I suspect this is Qt's fault, not kedit's fault....
Once KDE 2.0 comes out, I'll probably install it on my home machine; I
may then look into fixing Qt to obey the ICCCM, and, if I can get that
to work, send it off to the Trolls as a patch, complete with
explanations of why it's the Right Thing To Do.
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