Re: [Evolution] Strange behaviour of Ctrl-V

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 06:46 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I notice that in Evo 2.30.2 if I have a URL in the clipboard (copied
> > from a browser window for example) Edit->Paste (Ctrl-V) pastes the
> > *contents* of the URL as an attachment. To paste the URL itself I have
> > to use Edit->Paste Quotation (Shift-Ctrl-V).
> >
> > IIRC this is a change and I'm not sure I like it. It seems odd that the
> > more usual option of pasting the URL -- which is what I want to do maybe
> > 99.999% of the time -- is harder to get to. No doubt someone thought
> > that pasting the attachment might be useful, but I can't actually think
> > of a single reason why I would ever want to do that. I often complain to
> > people who waste bandwidth sending a page when they could send a URL.
> > What on Earth is the point?
>
> See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551464

OK. So the problem is that everything is a URI?  If the URI points to a
local file, then yes the default should be to paste the file and not the
URI.  But if the URI happens to be a non-local file, such as a web
reference, then the default should surely be to paste the URI and not
the content.

For the bugzilla address above - would you want the content of the
bugzilla page posted or the URI?

P.