as a general philosopy I'd think: UI-use and data exchange -> mimic Excel and Calc, questionable calculations / wrong results / truncated precision / faking -> don't.
in that sense I see two - intentional? - deviating behaviors:
- Calc keeps the paste buffer after 'crtl-x - ctrl-v', you can paste subsequent copies, in gnumeric it's emptied after the first paste,
- Calc treats the value copied by 'crtl-x' same as if copied with 'ctrl-c': paste in ranges is possible, gnumeric allows only one 'size identical' copy, if you select a bigger area -> blocked by 'destination has different shape ...'.
AFAIR Excel acts the same way as Calc.
Since spreading gnumeric also means to offer Calc and Excel users a migration, and since the behavior of Calc and Excel is more like the behavior common in other areas of Windows and Linux, I would suggest to adapt gnumeric to that ...
