Bug 57646

Summary: Add shortcut for pasting SELECTION buffer
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Wout Mertens <wmertens>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Wout Mertens 2003-04-24 13:48:29 UTC 
Version:           1.2 (using KDE 3.1.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-gentoo-r1

With the advent of KDE3, clipboard handling was standardized so that the SELECTION and CLIPBOARD buffers are clearly separated, with the mouse adding to SELECTION and not CLIPBOARD.

All nice and dandy, but I was really used to selecting with the mouse and then doing shift-insert to paste it in my session.

Could you perhaps implement a 'Paste mouse selection' shortcut? That way users who are used to the old way can still use the old way, knowing what they do, and new users aren't confused.

Thanks!
Comment 1 Waldo Bastian 2003-04-24 14:11:35 UTC 
Use shift-ctrl-insert.
Comment 2 Vincent de Phily 2004-07-22 22:55:10 UTC 
While you *can* use shift-ctrl-insert or redefine the shortcuts, the standard shortcut for pasting selection is shift-insert.

Be it xterm, aterm, eterm, gnome terminal, PuTTY, they all use shift-insert for this action. This brings unnecessary confusion to users (I spent months thinking the only way to paste was the mous.), breaks coherence, and adds a learning curve. .

I therefore feel the default shortcuts for "paste" and "paste selection" should be swaped.