Kevin Reid wrote: > On Mar 12, 2010, at 21:27, Chris Palmer wrote: > >> There is also the threat of copy/paste mishaps. As they should be, the >> gestures to perform pasting are very easy and habituatable. Have you >> ever swiped your mouse across an array of xterms and pasted your email >> into IRC by accident? :)
As it happens, I made exactly that mistake today (fortunately with a harmless string), on Windows. > From us Mac/Windows users, this rather sounds like a design flaw in > X11 UI conventions. Well, any app can read the clipboard without explicit user action on Mac/Windows. All commonly used OSes/window systems give excess authority to apps here. It's true that X11's convention may be a little more accident-prone even when all apps are non-malicious, though. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com
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