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

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Sep 12, 2008, at 10:59, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> 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.

And what do you expect it to copy?  I imagine whatever you have  
selected.  That is PRIMARY, and what really needs to be copied when a  
user does Edit->Copy.

Paste, however, is impossible to implement and will be removed from  
the menu.

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