Re: selected text is PRIMARY?

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 12:10 -0700, Alan M. Evans a écrit :
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 11:14, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 19:28 +0200, Jernej Simončič a écrit :
> > > On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:14:17 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > 
> > > > - One selection per application ?
> > > > - One selection per window ?
> > > > - One selection per widget ?
> > > 
> > > I'd go for one selection per widget - I'm always annoyed in X when I select
> > > something, and my previous selection is erased (even though I do often use
> > > the middle-button pasting).
> > 
> > Nice. And now when you press Ctrl-C, what happens ?
> 
> Well, being merely a user, I would expect it to copy the selected object
> in the currently focussed widget. Is there something difficult or
> non-obvious about that?

Yes there is. Witness Evolution and its load of widgets. In its first
versions, You had to focus the right widget to have keypress do what you
wanted (e.g. if the trash was last clicked, and you pressed the spacebar
to pagedown, the current mail was deleted instead). Tha was a mess and
now keypresses are interpreted nearly independently of the last widget
you clicked.
Having Ctrl-C being dependant on the last clicked widget is a bad idea
in real life. Your multiple selections look equally bad to me.

	Xav