On Tuesday 20 October 2009 06:53:06 David C. Rankin wrote:
I don't know if this is possible currently, but if it isn't, it should be. One of the areas where kde is light-years ahead is with the copy/paste convenience provided by the dual clipboard/selection buffers that klipper offers. However many, many times I have selected something that I will want to paste only to find I have to select something else to clear a text-box like the google search box or firefox address bar. This requires that you either click into the text-box hit 'end' and 'backspace' over all the existing text you need to clear (PITA with very long URLs) or I just resolve to select/delete/reselect/paste -- wasted effort.
Yes I know I could actually 'copy' the information to the clipboard buffer and that the next selection into the 'selection' buffer does not alter the copy buffer (I do that when I know a select/delete is needed), but I'm talking about all the times you select something for a quick paste only to then find out another select/delete will be needed after you shuffle through the open windows to get where you needed to paste the information.
Put another way - How to delete the existing line edit contents while preserving the selection buffer? What you suggest is one way around this problem. I feel (unsurprisingly) that the most elegant solution is what KLineEdit, KComboBox etc have - add a clear text button to the widget. It's discoverable and doesn't require switching from mouse to keyboard. As a fallback for Firefox, etc, I just do what I guess Windows users habitually do - Copy (in any of a number of ways) the url to 'clipboard', alt- d OR double click the text to replace and ctrl-v. If you select 'sync selection and clipboard' in Klipper you have the convenience of drag-to-select with this method. Your proposed 'meta-select + backspace to delete while preserving selection then click to paste' would a similar amount of combined mousing and keyboard tricks, and different to 'doze. PS - there are Firefox extensions that add a clear location bar button to the toolbar. 'Neo Diggler' (untried, untested) seems to be one. Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org