question about UI, 'ctrl-x' in gnumeric working different than in Calc, and Excel?
newbie nullzwei via gnumeric-list <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:50:12 +0200
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--===============2747609043340971876== Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"> <div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"> <div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"> <div> <br/> as a general philosopy I'd think: UI-use and data exchange -> mimic Excel and Calc, questionable calculations / wrong results / truncated precision / faking -> don't. <br/> <br/> in that sense I see two - intentional? - deviating behaviors: <br/> - Calc keeps the paste buffer after 'crtl-x - ctrl-v', you can paste subsequent copies, in gnumeric it's emptied after the first paste, <br/> - Calc treats the value copied by 'crtl-x' same as if copied with 'ctrl-c': paste in ranges is possible, gnumeric allows only one 'size identical' copy, if you select a bigger area -> blocked by 'destination has different shape ...'. <br/> <br/> AFAIR Excel acts the same way as Calc. <br/> <br/> Since spreading gnumeric also means to offer Calc and Excel users a migration, and since the behavior of Calc and Excel is more like the behavior common in other areas of Windows and Linux, I would suggest to adapt gnumeric to that ... </div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html> --===============2747609043340971876== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list --===============2747609043340971876==--