On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:07 AM Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote:
> > It can probably be implemented reasonably easily. It won't be a very > discoverable feature, though, so is it worth it? > > It's is an accessibility feature, and not the least relevant one, I suspect. So if it ever gets implemented, big desktop systems should mention it in their accessibility dialogs. That way it'd actually becomes a bit more discoverable. I'm sure many know the problem. So yes, it's worth mentioning in the 'standard' - in a way that makes explicit that everything copy-paste could be done without a keyboard. Specifically that you could paste over previously selected text. On the contrary the document presently states: " [...] you should be able to select text, then paste the clipboard over it, but that doesn't work if the selection and clipboard are the same [...] " .. as a point why middle-mouse-paste is flawed, which I find biased and misleading. I checked a lot of programs for said desired behaviour and almost all of them only have to implement the second point from my original mail, which is as easy as: -> middle click on a text selection does the same as ctrl-v (i.e. replace the selection, that's it.) (I found only the 'web view'-widget of chrome would have to to do the other point as well.) Since the thread got a bit distracted, I summarize my arguments in a silly bullet point list :) - everything copy-paste possible by means of mouse only - no new paradigm - no existing workflow breakage - improving a unique selling point of linux on desktop - half of it is required by wayland anyways and implemented by most clients already.. - ..the rest is very little and easy - accessibility feature almost for free (I also thought of a way on how to do it with triple and more clicks without relying on letting a timeout run out) Can I perhaps accelerate coming to a consensus with a reference implementation? cheers, Johannes
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