Re: selected text is PRIMARY?

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 4/14/06, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:

> The current behaviour breaks the principle that each
> application is entirely separate from others. You
> could say that as long as we have this problem of a
> background application forgetting its selection, we're
> not truly a multi-tasking environment.
> You could also say we're violating the HIG, because
> we're not respecting the user's data.

Thats not a principle, thats nonsense. Applications are not entirely
separate from
each other. There are plenty of resources which they have to share somehow,
from screen real estate to cpu time. X selections like PRIMARY are just another
example.

Matthias