On 5/26/06, Francesco Stablum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that there are two clipboard buffers and it can be very > annoying and conterintuitive to new unix/gnome users. Why not making a > single buffer?
Most users new to Unix are unlikely to know about the PRIMARY selection pasting method (select + middle click). The problems are that you can select text to make a PRIMARY-style "copy" operation, but doing a "paste" using edit-paste will paste the CLIPBOARD selection instead, and similarly a middle-click will paste the PRIMARY selection, which doesn't work if you did edit-copy. The problem is, the only way to combine the two systems would involve copying to the clipboard whenever text is selected. This would make things even more confusing than they already are - imagine someone who selects some text in application 1, selects "edit-copy", then goes to application 2, selects some text (to replace) and hits "edit-paste". Nothing happens, because the clipboard was overwritten the second time he selected any text. I'd say that users are unlikely to stumble across the PRIMARY select paste method anyway. It doesn't interfere with the normal copy-and-paste method, which is what most Unix newbies are going to use. -- Simon Howard http://www.soulsphere.org/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
