Hi, Tom Hughes wrote on Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 02:22:35PM +0000: > I think the bug explains fairly well why that is a bad idea. Sorry to butt in, but no, it explains why a handful of people think it is a bad idea, with another saying it's a good one. > 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. It really didn't take me long after first using X-based interfaces to make use of the primary buffer, and I've pretty much never used ^C/^V ever since. I only ever touch the mouse when I need to select something to copy/paste it, so I'm not going to try to pretend I understand people saying they don't want this behavior -- but likewise please don't say that the "selection copies" behavior is bad for everyone. It really isn't something I (and seemingly many others) want to lose, ever. I also don't think multiple buffers is a good idea, I've always found that confusing in X and this has been said in the bz as well, so we really should try to keep a single buffer too. If we can't get to a compromise just make it an option and everyone will be happy (except maybe for the nagging of what should be the default, but people can just make a poll for that -- I personally don't care as long as it's possible without having to hack code and rebuild) -- Dominique Martinet -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
