152523 - paste works / copy doesNOT ( it does only to mozilla & netscape, not to other apps )

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Patrick Carabin]

paste works / copy doesNOT ( it does only to mozilla & netscape, not to other 
apps )
when in Mozilla, there seems to be 2 «ClipBoards», ONE for copying/pasting from
Mozilla, using the standard keys ( Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert ) ONE to paste to
Mozilla from outside , with the 3d button of the mouse.
- Is it want developpers wanted ?
- Is it documented somewhere ?
to me it seems strange 2 pasting systems NOT beeing equivalent...

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yes, there are two clipboards.  This is the way X works; Mozilla has nothing to
do with that decision... The intended interaction of the two (and what Mozilla
implements) is described at http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt
 Any modern app (KDE3, GNOME, Netscape, Mozilla, etc) will follow that document.
 KDE2, notably, does _not_.

Marking this invalid, but please reopen if you have a specific instance in which
we are not working as described in that document.

Comment 2

[Paul Harrison]

Well, that explains a lot. Copy Link Location used to copy to both clipboards
and suddenly stopped somewhere between 0.9.9 and 1.0. I was going to report it
as a bug too. In my view it still IS a bug, but I appreciate that if something
appears to follow the "standard" it will not seem that way to developers.

That's a pain in the ****. That means there's no way of copying link locations
to the internal clipboard which means that, say, pasting into an XTerm is
impossible unless you're lucky enough to see the URL you want as selectable
plain text. It also means users have to constantly juggle in their head which
clipboard they want to paste from. Perhaps a "'Copy' commands from menus always
copy to both clipboards" pref could be implemented? Or is there one already?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Copy Link Location used to copy to both clipboards and suddenly stopped
> somewhere between 0.9.9 and 1.0.

That's a bug, actually...  It's been fixed, but I'm not sure the fix made 1.0
final.  It's certainly in 1.1 and 1.0.1 (when those appear).

Comment 4

[Paul Harrison]

Thanks! That gives me one less thing to complain about...

(Not that I do much complaining as far as Mozilla goes. It's my browser of
choice, 'nuff said.)

Comment 5

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