On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:45:15 +0100, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SNIP
> >
> > I'd have to argue on the point of intuitive. I just spent 2 minutes
> > trying to paste text from one email to another. It showed in my little
> > clip board in the bottom right but I couldn't paste it using CTRL+V or
> > the paste command in the edit menu. I could however paste it in KEdit.
> > Weird.
> >
> Why is Ctl-V intuitive? Just because that is how Windows does it does not make
> it 'intuitive'
See my sig below :)
Copy/paste functions generally work well within a toolkit. There still are some
wrinkles to iron out in GTK/QT interoperability. The developers have been
working on it, and things have improved over the past year. We'll just have to
wait for it to be finished.
> In Unix/Linux pasting is done by pressing the centre mouse button/mouse wheel.
> If you have no centre button click left and right buttons simultaneously.
>
> It will paste either the last highlighted text, or the text you select in
> kicker.
> It works across almost all Linux applications (OpenOffice is one of the few
> exceptions), and once you get used to it is much more 'intuitive' than the
> keyboard contortions you need to make Clt-C, Ctl-V
OpenOffice.org can be made to recognise middle clicks as 'paste' if you set it
in the Preferences.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
The only intuitive interface is a nipple.
After that, it's all learned.
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