bug#16382: Cut/Copy tool-bar icons issue

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 18/01/2014 16.13, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> Hello.
>
> I think the rationale was that with cut the selection is gone, so
> PRIMARY should be empty, i.e. PRIMARY reflects what is selected on screen.
> However, this is not in line with the freedesktop guidelines
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt:
>
> " - a selection becoming unselected should never unset PRIMARY"
>
> So I checked in a fix in trunk so PRIMARY is not reset.

This seems reasonable to me.. :)

Thanks,
 Angelo.

>      Jan D.
>
> 2014-01-14 18:59, Jan Djärv skrev:
> > Hello.
> >
> > 14 jan 2014 kl. 18:54 skrev Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>:
> >
> > > Il 14/01/2014 18.47, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > 14 jan 2014 kl. 18:25 skrev Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>:
> > > >
> > > > > Il 14/01/2014 17.07, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> > > > > > Hello.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 14 jan 2014 kl. 10:03 skrev Angelo Graziosi
> > > > > > <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Should we open a new bug report for this?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This report is fine.  The omission to copy to PRIMARY looks
> > > > > > intended, because when text is read-only and cut acts like copy,
> > > > > > text is copied to PRIMARY.
> > > > >
> > > > > "intended" ? If it is intended, which is its usefulness?
> > > > >
> > > > > If one wants to move text from a place to another, this doesn't
> > > > > work using the mouse and the "cut" icon on the tool-bar...
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. select the text with mouse-1 (dragging over the text)
> > > >
> > > > This should already put the text in PRIMARY.
> > > >
> > > > > 2. click the "cut" icon on the tool-bar: the text is removed
> > > > > 3. now move the mouse pointer where you want the text to reappear
> > > > > 4. click mouse-2 to paste: nothing happens
> > > > >
> > > > > So, newly, which the usefulness of the above "intended" omission?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I wonder if there is some thought behind this we don't see.
> > > > >
> > > > > ah..
> > > >
> > > > Does it work if you use C-w instead of cut?
> > >
> > > C-w and C-y work as expected. C-y works also if used at step 4 above.
> > > It is with the mouse and tool-bar "cut" icon that it doesn't work..
> >
> > Ok, so if nobody remember why the current implementation is the way it
> > is in a couple of days or so, I'll fix this.  C-w and cut should be
> > equivalent in this case.
> >
> >     Jan D.