On: A URL field pre-filled with a http:// which doesnt disappear on focus is bad UI

[rlpb]

> Just double click in the field to have all the text selected, then paste.

This won't work when using the primary selection (ie. middle-click paste) in X. Selecting the text wipes out the previous selection.

[petercooper → rlpb]

I might be missing your point, but I repeated the steps I mentioned in Ubuntu and have success. No middle click pasting though, just the OS X/Windows/everyone else standard of either context menu pasting or Ctrl+V. I recorded it too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZl3gTzqyKA

What am I missing?

[megablast → petercooper]

For unix systems with X, you copy the text by selecting it. So when you want to paste a URL, selecting the old URL to delete it will overwrite the copied URL. You would need to delete it first, and then copy the URL you are after.

[petercooper → megablast]

Again, though, I think I'm missing something. Isn't the windowing system Ubuntu uses X? In my video demo I "select" the contents of the text box, yet the existing contents of the clipboard remains. Or is this something Ubuntu does to keep us "other platform" migrators happy?

[tedunangst → petercooper]

There is another clipboard that X users like using and don't like having obliterated whenever a program requires text selection. The ctrl-C/V clipboard and the highlight/middle-click clipboards are different.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

[csarva → petercooper]

There are actually two different buffers in X and they are each used a bit differently. See here for an explanation:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html