Re: [Denemo-devel] New mouse selection method

[Nils]

I feared some insanity when I read about dragging = copy and paste, but with 
the Control Key its indeed very sane! :)

I think Crtl is "safe" enough. A dialog only gets in your way. Optional... hm. 
It will get in your way once and any time you delete your ~/.denemo  :)

Nils


On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:18:38 +0100
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> I missed out mentioning the Control key at several points in this email:
> 
> On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 10:07 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > At Nils' prompting I have changed the mouse selection method. Now
> > dragging with left button pressed starts and extends the selection.
> > I thought this would ruin the default action dragging with the 
> Control +
> > left
> > button pressed. (The standard mouse shortcuts are in the Edit menu, viz.
> > PrL-Control and RlsL-Control for cut and paste). In fact, I think these
> > are improved.
> >  You can now make a selection, place the cursor inside it and 
> Control+
> > drag the
> > music to a new point. As you press the 
> > left mouse button
> with Control Key down
> >  the selection
> > is deleted, and as you release it, it is pasted. 
> > There is no special control-dragging cursor, which would perhaps be
> > good. And it is perhaps too easy to have the control key pressed when
> > left clicking, causing an unwanted paste - an optional dialog to
> > complete the paste might be good?
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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