Re: cut-and-paste in gnome-terminal

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Peter said:

> I think the right kludge involves using Gnopernicus' (or Orca's) knowledge of 
> what is on the screen and moving the mouse either relative to that knowledge 
> (preferred kludge variant), or as an absolute pixel percentage relative to the 
> window (Orca script to click the mouse 33% of the way down in this window and 
> 7% over).
>  
While for some applications with poor keyboard navigation this may make 
sense, I disagree with Peter in the context of the original question, 
which was about text cut-and-paste.  It makes much more sense to use the 
AccessibleText APIs (via orca or gnopernicus) than to manipulate the 
mouse - we have excellent ability to both extract text using 
AccessibleText, and edit text, via AccessibleEditableText, without 
having to second-guess the exact mouse actions required to select text.

There are numerous applications in which selectable text is difficult or 
impossible to select via the keyboard.  The text APIs give us a reliable 
way of both selecting the text (when that's what's necessary) and 
copying the text (when what we really want is cut-and-paste), so I think 
having orca and gnopernicus implement their own text "clipboard" would 
be a very powerful feature.

- Bill