On 12/11/15 14:10, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:59:02AM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 12/11/15 10:51, Jared K. Smith wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
You forgot primary selection/middle click paste, which was what made
me go back to X when I tried it in F23.
I've been testing Wayland myself since around the F22 time period, but
"middle click paste" and the occasional odd bug keep annoying me enough
to go back to X. Can you elaborate on the plans for supporting middle
click to paste, or is it considered a relic of a bygone era and I should
try to unlearn? I'm generally in favor of pushing the envelope a bit
when it comes to new features, but I have to admit that defaulting to
Wayland at this point seems a bit premature to me, even for rawhide.
All I know is what I found by googling:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214655
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/75924/fedora-23-wayland-gnome-terminal-mouse-middle-click-paste/
My brain hurts after reading that. Since Wayland decided there should
be Only One clipboard buffer (which is probably a good idea), would it
be too hard to just make Menu Copy/Paste do the same thing as Keyboard
Copy/Paste (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) do the same thing as Select/Middle-Click
Copy/Paste, all with the same single clipboard buffer, on/between both
Xwayland apps and native Wayland apps?
I think the bug explains fairly well why that is a bad idea.
It's not so much on the paste side, where having middle click paste
whatever was in the clipboard side would not be a major problem.
It's more that you probably wouldn't want your clipboard buffer
overwritten whenever you selected some text.
Currently X has two (well three, but let's ignore the secondary
selection) buffers. One for primary selection that is overwritten when
you select and pasted with middle click and one for the clipboard
selection that is overwritten on Ctrl+C and pasted on Ctrl+V.
Tom
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