begin quoting Paul Seelig as of Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 01:54:42PM +0200: [chop] > And while we are at it, there are some more feature enhancements which > would be very worthwhile to be added, but which strangely enough nobody > ever seems to have bothered about yet: > > - Enable copy'n'paste via industry standard ctrl-c/v keyboard shortcuts > in the WINGs widget set, and enable exchange of clipboard selection and > content also with any other standard widget set (e.g., gtk+/qt).
I'd argue that this is not an _industry_ standard, only a _Microsoft_ standard. And if I wanted the Microsoft UX, I'd use Microsoft Windows, thankyouverymuch. I'd further argue that ^C/^V/^X are _not_ something the window manager should touch without explicit user direction, because control-keys are used by applications. A window manager that intercepts, for example, control-C will very quickly end up being deleted from any system I have administrative access to or policy control over. Now, extending the cut-buffer access beyond the universal *nix default of left-select right-extend middle-paste is not a bad thing -- so long as it doesn't break standards that have been working well for decades (I can't be the only one who wants to shoot developers who break ^S/^Q for flow control?) unless the user explicitly sets it up that way. I tend to use Mod4+<key> for window-manager shortcuts, and leave Control for controlling the application. > - Do not let WINGs based dialog boxes lose focus only after temporarily > switching via alt-tab to another window and back again. Right after no-focus-stealing is no-focus-forgetting, yes. > - Enable full keyboard navigation of WINGs based applications, without > the need to use any kind of mouse pointer. As a touch-typist, I approve of this suggestion. > I think these features are industry standards since loooong time and > which are definitely missing in wmaker/WINGs. If people like us are > mainly used to use wmaker like we are used to use it, we are probably > missing the point of view of people who are used to other kinds of > environments. Part of the reason I use WindowMaker is that it doesn't automatically ape the bad user-experience that other systems and window managers do. I need to get work done, not fight my system's "helpfulness". I keep ending up with WindowMaker because it offers a reasonable level of eye candy without sacrificing my ability to Get Stuff Done. [snip] TL;DR - "better" is not the same as "what everyone else is doing" -- SJS -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
