Re: [orca-list] orca virtual window suggestion

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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I'm late to the party but gladly I vote for the normal clipboard; I'm
glad the decision went that way.:) Thanks Lorenzo, for that vote as
well.

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 06:56:36PM -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > I am still most in favour of using the real clipboard wherever possible.
>
> ???Okie dokie, real clipboard it is. <smile>
>
> There are now two patches attached to the flat review copy RFE:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513764
>
> The first is the one I described.  The second gives you two keybindings:
> One to copy the contents under flat review to the real clipboard and one
> to append the contents under flat review to the text that's in the real
> clipboard.  Note that if you have non-text in the clipboard (e.g. an
> icon that you had copied for the purpose of placing it in another
> folder) and use append, that object will be converted to text (e.g. the
> path of the file represented by the icon).
>
> Important:  All the warnings about the need to remove the keybindings
> before going back to "normal" still apply.  Also the patches are
> independent of one another.  If you want to try each to get a feel for
> the differences, undo one completely before applying the other.
>
> > As I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread, the ability to copy
> > text from ordinarily uncopiable windows could actually be a very good
> > thing for non-orca users, especially those who wish to test unstable
> > software and report bugs.
>
> Lorenzo, I agree with you 100%.  I've manually retyped the contents of
> such dialogs for bug reports before, and I'll undoubtedly do it again.
> <smile>
>
> --Joanie
>
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