Xavier Bestel wrote:
It does not cause any problem. Just some people want to switch from a
well-defined behavior (one PRIMARY per DISPLAY)
Noone wants to change *this*.
to a fuzzy one: you want
to have several selections, but how many ?
- One selection per application ?
- One selection per
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 07:21 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro writes:
Maybe users don't know what X11 is, but maybe they know what the
middle button usually does in text widgets;
user mode
middle button? I don't have any middle button. I have this weird wheel
From: Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
Maybe users don't know what X11 is, but maybe they
know what the
middle button usually does in text widgets; it's
very easy to discover
this even by accident, and it's a very useful
feature once discovered.
And GNOME itself has behaved like this
On 4/14/06, Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The current behaviour breaks the principle that each
application is entirely separate from others. You
could say that as long as we have this problem of a
background application forgetting its selection, we're
not truly a multi-tasking
Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 17:54 +0100, Joachim Noreiko a écrit :
Thats not a principle, thats nonsense. Applications
are not entirely
separate from
each other. There are plenty of resources which they
have to share somehow,
from screen real estate to cpu time. X selections
like
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:14:17 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
- One selection per application ?
- One selection per window ?
- One selection per widget ?
I'd go for one selection per widget - I'm always annoyed in X when I select
something, and my previous selection is erased (even though I do
Xavier Bestel wrote:
It does not cause any problem. Just some people want to switch from a
well-defined behavior (one PRIMARY per DISPLAY) to a fuzzy one: you want
to have several selections, but how many ?
- One selection per application ?
- One selection per window ?
- One selection per widget
Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 19:28 +0200, Jernej Simončič a écrit :
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:14:17 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
- One selection per application ?
- One selection per window ?
- One selection per widget ?
I'd go for one selection per widget - I'm always annoyed in X when I
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:14:36 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 19:28 +0200, Jernej Simončič a écrit :
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:14:17 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
- One selection per application ?
- One selection per window ?
- One selection per widget ?
I'd go for one
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 11:14, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 19:28 +0200, Jernej Simončič a écrit :
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:14:17 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
- One selection per application ?
- One selection per window ?
- One selection per widget ?
I'd go for
Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 12:10 -0700, Alan M. Evans a écrit :
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 11:14, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le vendredi 14 avril 2006 à 19:28 +0200, Jernej Simončič a écrit :
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:14:17 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
- One selection per application ?
- One
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:02:32 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Having Ctrl-C being dependant on the last clicked widget is a bad idea
in real life. Your multiple selections look equally bad to me.
I'd expect Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Ins, I'm used to old key combinations for
clipboard operations) to only have
On Ter, 2006-04-11 at 16:25 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:11:28 +0200
From: Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:48, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
I actually doubt that if you have two selections
with same colors
and everything, then it will
Hi,
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:48, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
I actually doubt that if you have two selections with same colors
and everything, then it will cause troubles. Yes, you are not able
to tell which one will get pasted. But how often does it happen,
that you select some text, have a cup of
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:11:28 +0200
From: Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:48, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
I actually doubt that if you have two selections
with same colors
and everything, then it will cause troubles. Yes,
you are not able
to tell which one will get
Xavier Bestel wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:48, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
I actually doubt that if you have two selections with same colors
and everything, then it will cause troubles. Yes, you are not able
to tell which one will get pasted. But how often does it happen,
that you select
Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
mozilla allows user having multiple selections, and it doesn't
clear selection when you select something else. It's not buggy,
it's correct (not for everyone, of course).
Not according to accepted practice. At the very least (not even
) *but* will make selection in text *not* disappear
when you select text elsewhere.
I do understand all this stuff about primary selection, and I do
understand that many people are happy
about it. Point is that selected text == PRIMARY is important only
only for those who really care about
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On 3/9/2006 11:38 AM, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
Hello everybody,
I opened a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334060 ,
about selected text == PRIMARY gtk thing.
What do people think about enabling people use gtk in 'mozilla-like'
mode
Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
It's not really gtk that's in the wrong here - IMHO mozilla/firefox is
buggy.
mozilla allows user having multiple selections, and it doesn't
clear selection when you select something else. It's not buggy,
it's correct (not for everyone, of course).
The document you
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On 3/9/2006 3:05 PM, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
It's not really gtk that's in the wrong here - IMHO mozilla/firefox is
buggy.
mozilla allows user having multiple selections, and it doesn't
clear selection when you select
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On 3/9/2006 3:51 PM, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
mozilla allows user having multiple selections, and it doesn't
clear selection when you select something else. It's not buggy,
it's correct (not for everyone, of course).
Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
Well, we're arguing over what boils down to a personal
opinion/aesthetics, which is useless. No agreement can be made here, so
let's just drop it.
We can't! This is what I am talking about: I like this, and you like that,
and it's impossible to satisfy both. And
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On 3/9/2006 5:31 PM, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
I agree. Can we please get entry in FileChooser?
Try ctrl+L. Assuming that's what you mean.
As a random example, a piece of software I maintain had an option for
whether or not to show application
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