[Geany] Problem in Windows version of Geany

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Thu Feb 19 17:16:28 UTC 2009


On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:46:23 -0800, Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net>
wrote:

Hey Bob,

>According to the manual, dragging selected text is move by default,
>but copy with the shift key. Indeed that is how it works under Linux.
>But in Windows, it still has the pre-0.11 behavior: copy by default,
>move with the shift key.

it's not a bug, it's a feature.

On Linux, the default D'n'D action is to move text. On Windows the
default action is to copy text.
Don't ask me why these are the defaults but they affect all GTK
applications. I.e. dragging in text areas in GTK apps on Windows,
will/should always copy the text instead of moving it.

Technically, we could change this in Geany but I really don't want to
do this as it would break user interface design by not respecting
global standards.

Maybe there is somewhere a preference or setting in GTK to change this
though with a quick search I couldn't find anything.


Geany pre-0.11 did break these standards, more exactly Scintilla did.
Therefore we discussed this at Scintilla, got it changed in Scintilla
and then benefited in Geany by this change.

Regards,
Enrico

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