option to ignore primary selection

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Thu Dec 18 08:06:29 CST 2003


On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 05:00, Ulrich Czekalla wrote:
> This patch adds an option (turned off by default) to restrict Wine to only
> use the clipboard selection since it will never implement proper behaviour
> for the primary selection (You'll never be able to select text with the
> mouse).

The kind of people who get confused by this will probably not alter the
defaults in this way, or even understand what the option does. Perhaps
it should be on by default, with power users who are willing to accept
its half completeness willing to switch on support for PRIMARY
themselves?

thanks -mike




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