Re: selected text is PRIMARY?

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:

> On 4/14/06, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>
> wrote:
> 
> > The current behaviour breaks the principle that
> each
> > application is entirely separate from others. You
> > could say that as long as we have this problem of
> a
> > background application forgetting its selection,
> we're
> > not truly a multi-tasking environment.
> > You could also say we're violating the HIG,
> because
> > we're not respecting the user's data.
> 
> Thats not a principle, thats nonsense. Applications
> are not entirely
> separate from
> each other. There are plenty of resources which they
> have to share somehow,
> from screen real estate to cpu time. X selections
> like PRIMARY are just another
> example.
>
 
Users don't know about CPU resources.
The purpose of windows is to get round the shared
screen space.
I don't think it's nonsense at all.

If there's no way to keep this and fix the problems it
causes, then it has to go.



		
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