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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Peter da Silva wrote:
> ISTR BeOS uses the same annoying WinMac half-mouse-half-keyboard
> model that keeps me from being able to shove the keyboard out of
> the way when I need to reclaim desk space.
Hmmm, it never occurred to me to want copy/paste without using a keyboard.
Can you not right click a selection? I just consider selection to be so
fundamentally different from copying that I would never want them equated
(as they halfway are in X), and the way that X works makes me especially
upset. How would you do keyboardless copy/paste without just depending on
selection? How would you use this to select some text, cut it, select
some other text, and paste in? I think right-clicking selections would be
sufficient, although (as I'm sitting at an X box) I don't know if this
works anywhere right now.
> What it does under the covers with MIME types or creator codes or
> file extensions? that's an implementation detail. AFAICT they're all
> using the moral equivalent of MIME under the covers, and not an
> olive loaf in site.
Well, the cool thing about Be's implementation that really moved it beyond
just a detail was that the sending and receiving apps could essentially
agree on the most sophisticated, appropriate format: Can't take
text/html? I can do text/plain if necessary, or text/rtf, or whatever.
You can do more than just image/bitmap? Great, layered copies would be
cool.
Like I said, though, it wasn't long lived, so apps didn't really get the
opportunity to really take advantage of it and find its problems.
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that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly
goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
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