Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 01:47 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > I haven't seen any rationale, only opinions. Currently, when I copy > something to the clipboard I cannot paste it by C-v, which is what > the typical Windows user expects. He doesn't expect to have to choose > either > Edit->Paste External Clipboard/Selection->Clipboard as Lines > or > Edit->Paste External Clipboard/Selection->Clipboard as Paragraphs > or > Edit->Paste External Clipboard/Selection->Selection as Lines > or > Edit->Paste External Clipboard/Selection->Selection as Paragraphs > > But which one? And what does it mean "as Lines" or "as Paragraphs"? > > Not to say that the typical Windows user would expect to be able to > paste images... but... oops, he can't. Tsk, tsk, this is not what the > OS guidelines suggest, isn't it?
Now you become polemic by pointing at totally different issues (and besides: LyX does not store images in the document itself, so image pasting cannot be implemented in a sensible way as long as that is the case). > So, you say that it is wrong having an easy way to paste the contents > of the external clipboard as text using the middle-button. > Instead, I say that it is right because it is not C-v, so I don't > expect to be able to paste arbitrary content and because it is handy. When I separated the external clipboard from the selection it was always my plan to merge it with the internal clipboard in such a way that C-v would always paste the more recent one. The external clipoboard menu entries are nevertheless useful, because C-v has to either choose "as Lines" or "as Paragraphs", and you sometimes want the other (if you don't know what the difference: Try it out, I severely miss something like this e.g. in OOo) > LyX can only copy/paste text, so the selection/clipboard separation > was a big mistake. IMHO, of course. No, it was needed to implement a clean selection concept on X11. And of course the plan is that LyX should be able to transfer more than plain text via the clipboard in the future, but the selection will always be plain text only. Georg
