Re: selected text is PRIMARY?

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Xavier Bestel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:48, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
>  
>
> > I actually doubt that if you have two selections with same colors
> > and everything, then it will cause troubles. Yes, you are not able
> > to tell which one will get pasted. But how often does it happen,
> > that you select some text, have a cup of coffee, then come back and
> > press middle mouse button? I guess less often than you would be
> > annoyed by rainbow on your screen :)
> >    
>
> Your suggestion is akin to removing the visual feedback on widgets.
> After all, when you click on a button you are in front of the screen and
> you know where you clicked, why bother with a visual feedback ?
>  
This is the example of where visual feedback *is* needed, try to click 
twice without moving mouse :)
Anyway, it's not correct. I am not saying that visual feedback is not 
needed. I am saying that in this
particular case I can't see a good way to indicate visually that given 
selection acquired PRIMARY,
and that the absence of visual feedback in this particular case is not 
that bad.

> The 'selected in PRIMAY' has been deeply entrenched in the X11 culture
> for years. If the only selling point for removing it is "in most cases
> it won't hurt", then the cause is lost.
>  
I really need to prepare some reply template for such cases. No, I do 
not want to remove something
just because I want to remove it. I want to be able to have two 
selections simultaneously.

Best regards,
Yevgen