[Geany] Problem in Windows version of Geany

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:58:49 -0700, Bob wrote:

>Enrico Tröger wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:06:47 -0800, Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:01:05 +0100, Frank Lanitz
>>>> <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> Hi, 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:09:17 -0800
>>>>> Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>>>> Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>           
>>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:46:23 -0800, Bob Snyder
>>>>>>> <bob.snyder at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>>               
>>>> Bob, you could ask on the gtk-app-devel-list at gnome.org[1] mailing
>>>> list for any hints about this, with the results we could add a FAQ
>>>> item on the Geany website or something like this.
>>>> Just keep us up2date.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
>>>>       
>>> I posted on the gtk-app-devel list as suggested, and was told by
>>> Tor Lillqvist that basically, I should file a bug. I pressed the
>>> issue and received this:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Is there any sort of
>>>>       
>>>>> configuration file or environment variable that can be used to
>>>>> reverse the behavior?
>>>>>         
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>> Not as far as I know.
>>>>
>>>> --tml
>>>>       
>>> I have filed a bug report on bugzilla.gnome.org (573067), but that 
>>> doesn't really help in the near term. I'll let the list know if
>>> anything interesting comes of it.
>
>Bug update:
>
>The bugzilla item has been closed, the problem should be solved, I 
>suppose, with the next release of GTK. Text below.

Great. So let's wait for GTK 2.16 which should be released sometime in
the next weeks (around the next Gnome release, I guess).

Bob, thanks for help and support on this issue. Not only Geany but also
any other GTK apps will benefit from this!


Regards,
Enrico

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