Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare

[Les Mikesell]

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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  Les Mikesell
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