On Saturday 12 June 2004 11:44, Scott Leighton wrote:
I myself experienced some of the flustrations he wrote about. The cut and paste example resonates strongly with me, I _still_ haven't figured out what obscure scheme klipper uses to decide what is current on the klipboard for pasting. Whatever that scheme is it is NOT intuitive and IMHO there is no excuse, no user should have to go read a manual to figure out how to cut and paste between applications.
Its what ever you highlight last. And as far as never having to read a manual, that comment speaks volumes. How did you learn windows? Spoon fed from birth? Its just one more example of your bias based on familiarity. Had you use the standard 'nix way of cut and paste from the start you would never call the MS way intuitive. Yes there are a few applications that misbehave in this regard in linux, but they are not part of linux simply applications. Pegasus Emailer (windows) also has flaky cut and paste support - yet you don't lay that baby at Microsoft's door do you!?! -- _____________________________________ John Andersen