Use clipboard, not cut buffer [LWN.net]

Use clipboard, not cut buffer

Posted Aug 15, 2005 4:01 UTC (Mon) by jdub (subscriber, #27)
In reply to: Use clipboard, not cut buffer by Zarathustra
Parent article: GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Well, let's get beyond the bile and look at what all of this means: Why do you perceive GTK+/GNOME developers to be anti-UNIX, or somehow incapable of writing software that conforms to your definition of UNIX-like? I'd be keen to find out what else defines UNIX-like to you (beyond the usual "small tools that work together" mantra).

(And for the record, aiming our sights at the 99.999% of users who are not like us makes the software better for us as we go - see the dramatic rise in geek use of Mac OS X for evidence enough of this.)

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Use clipboard, not cut buffer

Posted Aug 15, 2005 12:37 UTC (Mon) by tgb (guest, #745) [Link]

The problem as I see it is that "legacy" X apps support a certain way of working (ctrl+a, ctrl+e, middle-click-paste etc.). As GTK+ is a cross-platform toolkit, it should support the same keybindings that people on their current platform are used to. X-style cut/paste/keybindings should work under X, in the same way as Ctrl+C should copy text under Windows, in the same way as Command+C does the same under Mac OS.

Any truly-cross-platform toolkit, IMHO, should change to fit in with the way people already work in that specific environment. It should be the toolkit, not the person, changing to fit an environment.