Georg Baum wrote:
- As I read Abdel's patch (and as it was meant AFAIK) it overwrites the
clipboard with the selection.
Yes but I proposed to remove this clipboard overwriting.
This destroys a very common feature (pasting
something over a selection). Now you don't see that, but I don't
understand why.
Me neither because with my patch, the clipboard _is_ overwritten with my
patch.
- The same behaviour of LyX across platforms unless there is a very
important reason against it. Such a reason could either be a different
platform standard (this is e.g. the case with the disconnected menubar on
the Mac), or in the case of the selection it is simply not available on
windows.
If you now want to reuse the middle mouse button which does nothing on
windows for something else than a true selection, then that should not be
the default, but configurable. If a user switches from X11 to windows or
vice versa it is very obvious if the middle mouse button does not paste
anything on windows. If it does something slightly different on windows
than on X11 this is not so obvious and destroys the simple mental model of
selection. Therefore people who what to use a pseudo selction on windows
should explicitly enable it.
I hope I made myself clear now.
Yes, it's very clear.
OK, we have a compromise then. Enrico, would you like to take care of
the preference setting? This should be a "Enable middle-mouse pasting"
check-box in the Preference settings dialog somewhere in the "Look&Feel"
section. Of course this check-box should not be visible on non X11
platforms. I am sure that Mac users would like it also.
Abdel.
