On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:17:25AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > 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.
I experimented a bit more and saw that the clipboard is overwritten by the selection _only_ if I press middle-button _while_ there is a selection. Doing so, the selected test is copied to the clipboard and also pasted at the cursor position. This is quite confusing, indeed. > > - 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. I can try that. -- Enrico
