[Glade-devel] bug with cut/paste

[andy.somerville at gmail.com (Andy Somerville)]

On 8/30/06, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb at gnome.org> wrote:
> Maxime wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I cut a widget and past it, its name changed : oldname => oldname1
> > It's very irritating to rename all widgets... (try to cut a window which
> > contains a lot of widgets for example...)
> >
> > I'm sorry if this issue had been already reported.
>
> Ouch, thats my bad (I introduced that in 3.0.1).
>
> Since you can now paste a cut or copied widget infinitely, a pasted
> widget is _always_ copied from the clipboard.
>
> I suppose the initial paste of a cut widget will have to use the
> name directly - subsequent pastes should modify the name.

May I suggest that the initial paste operation after a cut not be
special cased, but simply whenever pasteing widgets, do a check of the
name of widget attempting to be pasted vs all widgets and rename when
there is a collision.


     Andy

> Thanks for pointing this out :)
>
> Cheers,
>                    -Tristan