Re: Copy

[Nick Lamb <njl98r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 03:49:09PM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > Gnumeric doesn't obey X conventions for cut, copy and paste.
> >
> > If you are running Gnumeric 1.0.x then you have no hope of getting it to
> > interoperate properly with other software. If you are running 1.1.x
> > then a partial fix has been applied, you should be able to Copy but 
> > you probably won't be able to Paste.
>
> That's a tad harsh.

Is it? Did you fix the bug?

Gnumeric is the last major application(*) that I'm aware of which doesn't
have working ICCCM clipboard support. Users won't realise that, from
their perspective it looks as though the Cut, Copy and Paste options
in Gnumeric 1.0.x are broken in a mysterious and hard to explain way.

Eventually they'll give up, and go back to Excel on Windows, or they
will put up with the primitive XLS support in KSpread 1.2, which is
a KDE3 application and will therefore presumably have a working
clipboard.

Nick.

* Not counting GNU Emacs since that seems to exist in its own world