Re: Bump: Horrible frustrating copy/paste nightmares
Re: Bump: Horrible frustrating copy/paste nightmares
- Subject: Re: Bump: Horrible frustrating copy/paste nightmares
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:05:08 -0700
On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:08, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
Any chance there's been any progress on a better command-C system
for copying out of X11 and into other apps?
Not really (been busy with other higher-priority bugs)...
I think the big change we all agreed would be an improvement was
that when command-C is pressed, whatever (in the current system)
would be
copied into the aqua clipboard on a later command-V should instead
be copied
immediately.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here and how that is different
(or do you mean you want to see command-v implemented in X11.app?)
Right now, I think that does describe the current state of the
clipboard... but I haven't looked at it yet because of other things of
higher priority. It is approaching the top of my list, and I'll
probably get to it in September or early October if things go smoothly
between now and then.
There were other particulars about what exactly should be copied on
command-C (because X11 may have multiple clipboards, in a sense),
but I
think everyone agreed that the "command-C is a promise to copy, not an
actual copy" system didn't really make sense from an X11 UI
perspective or a
OSX UI perspective.
I don't recall that, but if that is indeed the case, I agree 100% and
that will be something that changes when I dig into the clipboard
issues.
Any further thoughts? I bring this up because this issue frustrates
me and wastes my time 10 or more times PER DAY, at work, at home,
and even
at sleep.
Sorry. How does this actually affect you directly? I don't really
see how it would have a usability implication, and knowing that will
probably help me make a better system.
(My motivation for bringing this up is partially the fact that it
hasn't been mentioned in a long time...but also that I dreamed last
night
that switching out of x11 de-selected any selected text in any x11
window,
causing me to be unable to copy anything from an x11 window...it was
frustrating. :) )
Ooh... bad nightmares...
But I also had a dream last night about how to fix the 3-button
emulation and stuck modifiers, and that's why those bugs are fixed in
the beta... so I guess some X11 dreams aren't as bad as others ;)
Take care,
Jeremy
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