You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 6:08 UTC (Mon) by mfedyk (guest, #55303)
In reply to: You must be joking by dlang
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

if you merged the two clipboards, you would have the problem of overwriting the current clipboard contents by accidentally selecting something with the mouse.

I like being able to copy and paste with just the mouse and not having to go through any menus to do so. I end up cursing the lack of that feature whenever I'm on another platform

You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 7:16 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

the question is would that be worse than the confusion of having two clipboards and the inconsistent way that applications use one or the other?

You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 15:43 UTC (Mon) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] (2 responses)

If you're using the menus to copy&paste on other platforms, you're doing it wrong. Use the keyboard shortcuts...

You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 21:39 UTC (Mon) by mfedyk (guest, #55303) [Link] (1 responses)

> If you're using the menus to copy&paste on other platforms, you're doing it wrong. Use the keyboard shortcuts...

Note the "with just the mouse" part...

I use the CLI all the time, but sometimes I don't have a free hand to reach for the keyboard (using screwdriver, using someone else's computer to instruct them, etc.) and just want to do something quickly with the mouse only.

Mouse selection and middle click paste

Posted Nov 11, 2010 16:10 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (guest, #2813) [Link]

I too use the mouse selection/paste extensively day to day. In fact it is seen as a "killer feature" by many folks when I'm convincing them to try a Linux desktop. Occasionally an application intentionally break this functionality. I remove those from my desktop and our computer labs whenever possible...