Use clipboard, not cut buffer

Use clipboard, not cut buffer

Posted Aug 15, 2005 12:24 UTC (Mon) by Arker (guest, #14205)
In reply to: Use clipboard, not cut buffer by emk
Parent article: GTK+ 2.8.0 released

It's very handy, but you'll be much happier if just use the clipboard for modern GUI applications.

I doubt very much that he would be, and I certainly wouldn't be. The selection buffer is massively more efficient in a great many cases. When I'm doing work that involves a lot of pasting, the selection buffer plus 'sloppy focus' can make the same task take half the time. That's several hours a day saved, in many cases.

When I noticed Gnome interfering with that, and trying to force me to use my *nix machine like a windows machine, was when I quit using Gnome, quite simply.

Despite the flame-ish tone to some of the above posters comments, I can understand why he's feeling flame-ish, and he makes some very good points. If this is intended to be a cross-platform library, then it should follow the conventions of each platform, rather than trying to impose the Windows Way on users of other platforms. The persistent tendency of the Gnome project to do exactly the opposite has been a huge tactical error in my opinion. And I say this as someone that was a big fan and defender of Gnome in the early days. But it seems like every release has been less and less usable to me. The constant non-verbal message seemed to be "forget about using your machine they way you want to, learn to use it the way we want you to, or go away." So I went away. I think a lot of other people have too. And I don't see any likelihood of a huge exodus of windows users to *nix systems anytime soon to make up for that. Plus, even if there was, I'd like to think that a GNU Desktop system would offer them a better way of doing things, not just the same buggy and poorly-designed interface they're already used to.

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