On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Paul Seelig wrote:
If i am not completely mistaken, this precedes MS Windows. I do not
Mac OS did support it before Windows using the Command key instead of Control. Don't know if it was used before that but maybe there are even older implementations.
commercial UNIX varieties. Let's not forget that it is a standard also for anything qt, gtk+, Gnome, and KDE. This is what actually counts.
Maybe this is the document that should be studied by someone who wants to implement this:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/clipboards-spec/
Window Maker uses its own widget set and which would have to implement this feature, not the window manager. And i would always expect to see ctrl-c being hardcoded to copy, ctrl-v to paste, ctrl-x to cut, etc.
Please don't hardcode it but make at least the modifier settable. I do have a Command key on my keyboard and prefer that over Control. (Or disable this altogether as I did not miss it so far. Using the X way of copy&paste is usually sufficient.)
Uniformity is good practice for user interface design, and currently only Window Maker's own WINGs widget set fails in this regard, while all the further above mentioned ones do comply.
Some words about WINGs: It stands for "WINGs is not GNUstep" and the reason for this is that Window Maker started to be the GNUstep window manager but GNUstep was not ready to be used at that time so a simple toolkit was written to be used until GNUstep matures enough but then WINGs stuck because Window Maker was started to be used by more people than just GNUstep users. It was never meant to be a full featured toolkit, only a temporary one. GNUstep has a different way of handling copy&paste via a pasteboard server but I think that wasn't implemented in WINGs either. Maybe this enlightens somewhat why is it missing from WINGs.
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