Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 7, 2014 15:27 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper by efitton
Parent article: Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

> Having two clipboards is powerful, useful and easy.

It's just a artifact of extremely bad historical design choices in X.

It wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that a huge number of X applications get copy and paste so incredibly wrong. I still have problems with trying to copy and paste URLs in and out of Firefox's navigation bar.

And, no, you can't really turn it off. It's part of X.

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 7, 2014 16:23 UTC (Mon) by efitton (guest, #93063) [Link] (1 responses)

Then have it optional in Wayland, but lots stop with the thinking that we have to protect the user and deciding what features to which the user should have access.

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 7, 2014 16:35 UTC (Mon) by mgraesslin (guest, #78959) [Link]

I'm a heavy user of the middle-click to paste feature. Features I use will be supported in Plasma -)

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 8, 2014 16:03 UTC (Tue) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link] (2 responses)

Hey, it's useful! I set clipboard filling with cntrl-c/context menu copy, and have selections pasteable ONLY by highlighting. If you think it's bad design because X doesn't give end user an obviouus way to turn off middle button paste, then OK, otherwise I don't get your point at all.

IMO the bad thing with X, was the lack of a basic run through tutorial, so what's happening on select, middle mouse button is clear. Most end users, don't even seem to realise they have a middle mouse button.

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 9, 2014 19:15 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

Even today, there are users who *don't* *have* a middle mouse button ... my not-that-old laptop for example! I know it can supposedly do a "middle mouse" but with no manual I don't have a clue.

Cheers,
Wol

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 9, 2014 20:09 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

most distros set things up so that hitting both mouse buttons at once is middle-mouse (and how well it works varies by the mounse, for some it works well, for others it doesn't)

Gräßlin: Next Generation Klipper

Posted Jul 8, 2014 16:07 UTC (Tue) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link]

Actually, I do remember how clumsy Mozilla used to be, partly due to bloat, but there was an impedance mismmatch between KDE and GTK based Mozilla.

Running a distro KDE integrated flavour of FF, is far more enjoyable.