Re: [Usability] Selection vs. selected text

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Hello there,
I apologize if I have sent this twice, I have some troubles with my mail 
server.

Shaun McCance wrote:

> Honestly, this behavior is viciously annoying.  I do use
> PRIMARY a lot, and I usually smack people whenever they
> advocate dropping it. 

I do not advocate dropping it!!!

> [snip]
> Standards were made to be interpreted.  We should just
> re-interpret PRIMARY as "the most recent thing explicitly
> selected by the user".
Well, this is what my patch in bugzilla does, and this is
what my bug report says. Let me quote it:

If it's FALSE, let newly selected text steal primary, so that "select, 
switch
and press middle mouse button" still works; but selected text should not 
get
unselected if someone else acquires PRIMARY. Yes, it would mean that 
"selected
text != primary selection content", i.e. it would do what mozilla does. But
this is way smaller problem when unselecting text nobody (at least not a 
normal
human who is editing text in gtk application and opens a dialog with an 
entry
inside) knows why. Not acquiring PRIMARY at all would be wrong because 
'select
and use middle button' is a nice feature, and there is no reason to 
remove it,
as long as it doesn't cause troubles in normal operations.

> I'd put down money saying we don't
> get a single complaint from anybody who uses PRIMARY.
>  
Well, folks on gtk-devel-list seem to have different opinion
about this ;) This is why I am proposing an option, not
unconditional changing of GTK behaviour.

Best regards,
Yevgen