On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:53 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote:
It is obviously up to the application developers to decide which key bindings they want to support in which context. It is up to the desktop style guides to define what should work. The Gnome apps I'm using behave as expected, and support both clipboards. In some cases, alternative keyboard shortcuts must be used (like SHIFT-^C), e.g. in a terminal window running a shell - for obvious reasons.
Well, there you go. With better standards that are recognized and honored, a developer won't be in the position of power and authority to 'decide' which keybindings they use. It would be a standard, with no deviations.
What? What does a new standard mean to something you've already been using for the last 30 years? For me, it would mean that the new standard would be ignored.
"Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare"? Give me a break!
And, as has been posted, it -is- a nightmare for some, including the likes of jdow, Tim, myself and others.
Yet, none of them have bothered to post where the right-mouse cut/paste menu choices fail to work as expected.
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