Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 14:51 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > What I question here is that those guidelines are also applied to Windows. > However, if I change my hat and wear that of an X11 user, I agree with you.
Well, this whole discussion might be moot now. What do you think of the proposal and the patch I sent? Does it do what you want? > > - As I read Abdel's patch (and as it was meant AFAIK) it overwrites the > > clipboard with the selection. This destroys a very common feature (pasting > > something over a selection). Now you don't see that, but I don't > > understand why. > > Me neither... But I understaned it now: theSelection->put() is never called, so it does not matter that it would set the clipboard. > As it stands now, middle mouse button only sets the changed status of a > document. This is really confusing. True. But that is a more general problem: The middle mouse button should not do that if the selection is empty, even not on X11. Georg
