Re: State of the X clipboard, and perhaps a solution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:46, Jan Morén wrote:
> lör 2004-04-24 klockan 04.23 skrev Jeffrey Stedfast:
> > On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 20:42 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: 
> > > On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 20:13, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I think it's a problem of presenting Cut/Copy/Paste items in an Edit
> > > > menu when that really doesn't do what it does on the other platforms
> > > > (namely copying the buffer to some application-independant location).
> > > > 
> > > > If we got rid of those menu items and just forced users to use the X
> > > > clipboard the way it was meant to be used, I think there'd be less
> > > > confusion about how it works.
> > > > 
> > > > users getting upset at the loss of cut/copy/paste menus is a whole
> > > > separate issue.
> > > 
> > > OK, then I don't know what you mean. I guess I came to X much later than
> > > you. Personally, I like those menus, and I like the functionality. What
> > > menus would you have instead?
> > 
> > I wouldn't have menus at all.
> 
> * Thud *
> 
> Umm, then what would you have? No menus - ok, so you would present the
> standard actions of opening, printing, searching and so on how, exactly?
> I just don't get your argument - especially within the context of the
> clipboard. Are you advocating a return to using terminal-type interfaces
> only? Or do you have a radical, great new paradigm to unleash upon us
> (don't get me wrong, I'd love that!)?

select region with left mouse button. switch to other app. middle mouse
click.

eg. do things the way the X clipboard was meant to work.

Jeff