Reply from Russ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) concerning Re[2]: [voyager] Cut and Paste -
20-Jun-99 16:54:53
>>. Why has MUI taken us into the regime of hidden GUI
>> commands? Why can't a right mouse button click render a local "cut,
>> copy,
>> paste" menu, as do other GUIs? A key concept behind the Amiga GUI is
>> that
>> keyboard shortcuts are reflected in menus so that you don't have to
>> refer to the manual to know or remember them.
> That wouldn't be very useful in a WWW browser.
Andreas: Not useful? I am sure I am not alone in using text cut/copy/paste
in Voyager several times a session for moving URLs around and importing
data from web pages.
The currently employed right mouse button menu renderings happen when the
pointer is over a frame (frame operations) or graphics (a.k.a. this is a
GUI feature Voyager already uses elsewhere)..
If the cut/copy/paste feature is there, why not display it in a menu?
> However, YAM e.g.
> supports exactly the desired behaviour (mark text + choose cut, copy
> or paste) when you create a new mail while it doesn't when you simply
> mark a text in a *received* mail...which of course makes sense, too.
> Otherwise you would locally alter the authors original mail or website
> when choosing "cut" or "paste".
The point I am making is does the GUI tell you cut/paste/copy is
available when it is available? You have brought up comparing the utility
of cut/copy/paste between different types of applications, and I believe
that is a separate issue.
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