Use clipboard, not cut buffer

Use clipboard, not cut buffer

Posted Aug 15, 2005 12:37 UTC (Mon) by tgb (guest, #745)
In reply to: Use clipboard, not cut buffer by jdub
Parent article: GTK+ 2.8.0 released

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.

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