Re: [Evolution] Strange behaviour of Ctrl-V

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 22:09 +0200, KÃre Fiedler Christiansen wrote:
[...]
> > > The bug in chromium is, that it identifies a copied URL as if it was a
> > > file copied from a file manager.
> >
> > That may be so, but the fact remains that IMHO the Evo behaviour is
> > suboptimal. I'm happy to entertain arguments to the contrary as long as
> > they aren't variations on "that's the way Outlook does it".
>
> I wouldn't know how Outlook does it. I haven't actually seen anyone
> refer to "how Outlook does it", either directly or indirectly.

Someone in the thread did make a reference to Outlook's behaviour as the
expected one (or perhaps it was on the long BZ exchange, I forget). Not
you of course.

> Is this somehow an argument that says that anyone who expects
> something of an application that happens be the same way it works in
> Microsoft products, is by definition wrong? I strongly disagree.
> Having a certain behavior in Microsoft products does not make it the
> right way to do things, but it certainly doesn't by definition make it
> the wrong way to do things either.

Certainly not what I said or implied, just to be clear. However the
"Microsoft Way" is viewed by many people as the "Right Way" simply by
default and without rational argument. That's what I want to resist.

poc