On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 08:27 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > --- Yevgen Muntyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand very well that this mode is just wrong > > for those who > > like/believes current GTK behavior is correct, and > > what I really would love > > to hear is what people think about ability to have > > multiple selections. > > I've just tried this with Gedit and Firefox: selecting > text in a webpage made the selection in Gedit vanish! > This feels wrong to me: the computer is interfering > with my data. If I select something, I want it to stay > that way, not vanish behind my back.
Honestly, this behavior is viciously annoying. I do use PRIMARY a lot, and I usually smack people whenever they advocate dropping it. My reasoning is that, if you don't know about it, it will never interfere with your life. The explicit clipboard works independently (except with kitten-killing buggy applications like x-chat). This one behavior, however, belies my entire argument. In the interests of supporting a geeky (handy, no doubt, but geeky) old feature, we are creating a behavior that is undesirable by regular folks. Standards were made to be interpreted. We should just re-interpret PRIMARY as "the most recent thing explicitly selected by the user". I'd put down money saying we don't get a single complaint from anybody who uses PRIMARY. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
