[Xquartz-dev] Proposal for PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD Copy/Paste

[Mark J. Reed]

As an end user, I don't want to know or care about pasteboard vs.
primary X selections.  I want Edit->Copy to copy and Edit->Paste to
paste, whether I'm in X11 or not.  Adding another menu item just
confuses me, and I'm never going to be sure which one to use.  HIG or
no HIG, that's a bad design.



On 9/12/08, George Peter Staplin <georgeps at xmission.com> wrote:
> Quoted Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at berkeley.edu>:
>
>> We want to avoid "when switching fg/bg" because this causes unexpected
>> bahavior when using pbcopy/pbpaste (the expected behavior would be
>> that pbpaste should paste whatever was just copied via cmd-c)
>
> How about one new menu item?  That's all we need to solve this I think.
>
> Copy            (always copies PRIMARY to PB)
> Copy Clipboard  (always copies CLIPBOARD to PB)
> Paste           (makes pbproxy own PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD)
>
> This isn't much different than apps that provide 2 Paste modes (Paste,
> and Paste and Reformat (IIRC)) in the menus as far as I see.
>
> I understand it may be a lot of work to add 1 menu item, because of
> localization, but I think it's the best way.
>
> I personally think it would be more awkward for users to have to
> toggle the option repeatedly to Copy the proper data.  To me this
> violates (my own) HIG more than 1 new menu item.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
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