Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 11:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> > > 2. When reading messages, I find that I can't select and cut/copy text. 
> > > REALLY limiting, when you're trying to cut-and-paste from an email
> > > message into something else.
> > are you sure you can't? Maybe that's because you're using the windows
> > way of doing it. If you use the X way (select with the mouse to copy and
> > press the middle mouse button to paste) it should work. It does for me.
>
> Likely that's the problem.  Forgot about implict cut/paste.  THe only
> issue I had with it is really, I guess, that there are times (for
> example, when composing the messages) that you DO have a drop-down menu
> for that.  Consistency (or lack thereof) I guess is what I'm getting at.

I can understand that... so my proposition is to remove all
cut/copy/paste menus because we simply CANNOT implement cut/copy/paste
in menus for everything that people want it for. It's just an impossible
task with the way X/Bonobo/etc work.

Jeff

> > cheers
> > -- 
> > Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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