Re: Moving from mailing lists to Discourse

2019-02-06 Thread Charles Lindsey
On 06/02/2019 11:46, Emmanuele Bassi via gtk-devel-list wrote: [Cross-posted to various relevant mailing lists; please, reply to gtk-devel-list] As part of an attempt at making GTK more friendly to newcomers, I and other core developers were thinking of moving the mailing lists from the

Re: Why these settings are deprecated?

2017-12-27 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:39:41 -, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On 26 December 2017 at 20:06, Tomasz Gąsior wrote: I would like to ask question directly to main GTK developers. Why these Xsettings are deprecated? XSettings are an X11-only concept

Re: [PATCH] file chooser: Restore consistent click behavior (for gtk 3.20)

2017-10-06 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:02:34 +0100, Matthias Clasen wrote: You are just bringing back the complaints about double-click. There is no winning here, and I will not support any simple reversal unless it comes along with a person who is willing to maintain the filechooser

Re: Whatever happened to the Secondary Selection?

2016-08-23 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:07:48 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote: I agree with this. IMHO it replaces one set of problems with an entirely new set: - Can't work cross windows Not sure what you mean by that. It is certainly possible to make a secondary selection in foreign

Re: Whatever happened to the Secondary Selection?

2016-08-23 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:28:18 +0100, Paul Davis wrote: I think you should forget about the X Window definition of PRIMARY/SECONDARY, since this isn't really about that. It is about issues with the normal selection model, that just *happen* to be addressed by

Whatever happened to the Secondary Selection?

2016-08-20 Thread Charles Lindsey
For over 20 years, I have been using the secondary-selection (a standard feature of the X-Windows system) when editing texts, using the Solaris operating system on Sun Hardware. Recently, I have switched to Linux on i86 hardware, and have been horrified to find that this valuable feature