2014-05-08 9:46 GMT+02:00 Thomas Martitz kugel@rockbox.org:
Am 08.05.2014 09:09, schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
2014-05-08 8:42 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com mailto: elextr@gmail.com>:
On 8 May 2014 16:30, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti@gmail.com <mailto:apasotti@gmail.com>> wrote: > 2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com <mailto:elextr@gmail.com>>: >> >> On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti@gmail.com <mailto:apasotti@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm not sure it is a geany bug but this is the only GTK application I >> > use >> > and I'm on kubuntu 14.04. >> > >> > The problem seems the same described here: >> > >> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1032119 >> > >> > - Copy-paste with mouse wheel fails >> > + Left-click clears PRIMARY buffer selection (Copy-paste with middle- >> > + button/mouse wheel fails) >> > >> > To reproduce, try the following steps in gedit, geany or jedit (same in >> > old >> > bug-report): >> > >> > 1) Select some text, thus copying it to the primary >> > copy-paste-buffer-thingy. >> > 2) *Left* click somewhere on the document, thus clearing the selection. >> > 3) Click mouse wheel (middle click). >> > >> >> Many people brought up on cut/copy to clipboard and paste do not seem >> to grasp that the selection is a *selection*, it is not copied to a >> clipboard. >> >> The applications that the bug reporters call "working" are doing the >> wrong thing and copying the selection to the CLIPBOARD or internally >> preserving it even after it is unselected. >> >> When the middle paste is used it pastes the PRIMARY selection, or if >> there is no selection pastes clipboard. So the applications doing the >> wrong thing will paste (either from their own internal copy or from >> clipboard), but those doing the right thing won't. >> >> Cheers >> >> Lex >Funny, it's about 20 years now that I'm using that method to quickly copy-paste under linux using the mouse, just to discover today that it's the wrong one :) Never too late to learn something!
BTW it's a pity, because I find it much more quick and intuitive than hitting various keyboard combinations like CTRL+SHIF+C or similar.
Just to be sure, I did some quick tests (I'm on Kubuntu 14.04 64bit):
mouse copy-paste works fine (as I expected) in terminal applications like konsole and xterm and works in mozilla FF and thunderbird. Among IDE's it works fine under kdevelop, netbeans, eclipse kepler. Ah, it also works in vim (didn't test emacs though).... I'm pretty sure all curses-based apps work.
Are you really sure that all these applications are doing it the wrong way?
It seems to me that clearing the selection/buffer when the user start dragging would much better that clearing it on mouse down events.
I wonder why you even clear the selection with an additional left-click? Just select and middle paste directly.
I usually don't, but sometimes I do, for example it can happen that I want copy-paste a piece of code but before pasting I notice that I need to type a few charachters, in that case I click in the position, type what I need to type, then paste.
I know this is not a show stopper, but I wonder (left aside discussions about what is wrong and what is not) what tare the advantages/needs to clear the selection on left click.