On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:53 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote: > > It is obviously up to the application developers to decide which key > > bindings they want to support in which context. It is up to the > > desktop > > style guides to define what should work. The Gnome apps I'm using > > behave > > as expected, and support both clipboards. In some cases, alternative > > keyboard shortcuts must be used (like SHIFT-^C), e.g. in a terminal > > window running a shell - for obvious reasons. > > Well, there you go. With better standards that are recognized and > honored, a developer won't be in the position of power and authority > to 'decide' which keybindings they use. It would be a standard, with > no deviations. What? What does a new standard mean to something you've already been using for the last 30 years? For me, it would mean that the new standard would be ignored. > > "Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare"? Give me a break! > And, as has been posted, it -is- a nightmare for some, including the > likes of jdow, Tim, myself and others. Yet, none of them have bothered to post where the right-mouse cut/paste menu choices fail to work as expected. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
