* Ulrich Czekalla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:01, Mike Hearn wrote: > > I don't agree with that, the X clipboard spec is very clear on this, and > > most apps are now in compliance. Mixing them together is what Qt used to > > do, and people found it very confusing when they couldn't figure out > > what was going on with the clipboard. > > I though you wouldn't ;) As you pointed out, if we can't use text > selection to pass data via PRIMARY (because Windows apps don't allow > this) then it follows that we should only use CLIPBOARD. But when I > select and copy text from Word, I want be able to paste it into my > xterm! I find this to be a common complaint. > > I guess in Wine we have been simulating the selection of data into > PRIMARY by assuming that if you copied data into the clipboard you > probably selected it. > > Your right thought, Wine apps may be somewhat unique but at the end of > the day its behaviour is non-standard. What does everyone else think? > This is one area that most people will have an opinion :)
And here's mine ... :-) I think Mike's right in that CLIPBOARD only should be used unless the actual visual text-selection itself can be hooked to use PRIMARY (which it seems probably can't happen in the general case). However I agree with you that people will want this to work how *they* want it to work, and the "Right Way" purists can go take a running jump. Or to put it more constructively, I think this should be configurable, presumably in the config file. I think as with all such things, the user is always right. BTW: I can envisage one day there being built-in Wine configuration and support in KDE and other all-for-one,one-for-all window managers - this sort of behaviour is likely to become a tick-box in a KDE configuration applet at some point just like every other little GUI tweak has become. Which is cool of course, I would like to control behaviour of the win32 support layer in the same place as I control behaviour of X11-native applications - so clipboard, mouse, keyboard (etc) should be as configurable as possible, not forced to be as "correct" as possible according to any one person's definition. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/
