Cut-Copy/Paste behavior

Jay Smith wrote:

 >Why not get a wheel mouse? On all, or virtually all, of them, the wheel
 >itself acts as the middle button. The scrolling function is very
 >convenient as well.

I think the point of this thread is that Linux is really annoying on the 
subject of "cut & paste".   Sure we can all run out and buy several 
cartons of mouses to refit the office, but wouldn't it be easier if 
Linux developers had taken the time to agree on a standard "cut & paste" 
method like Windows has done?  The wheel mouse method works within one 
application (as long as clicking the wheel doesn't pop-up the Logitec 
setup application), but not across different aplications.

We are trying to get the point across that it's not that Linux has 
implemented an incorrect method - our point is that it appears that 
nobody in the Linux world has even thought about the subject at all. 
That's what is really annoying!  Linux is really an IT back-end 
operating system, not a general office productivity package.

The wheel mouse solution maybe works for IT types, but it doesn't work 
worth a hoot for graphics/office work because when you cut something 
from one application, nine times out of ten it disappears  when you try 
to paste it into another application no matter what type of mouse you 
have.

The nice thing about Windows is that there's obviously a bunch of 
thoughtful Christian types at work thinking about all of these things 
and fixing them.  How much extra work would it have been for the Linux 
developers to think about these things?  Not a lot, and the fact that 
nobody has, and that even still nobody cares, says a lot about the 
nature of Linux.  I've spent a lot of time on Linux, and Linux 
developers are still inclined to say,"So what, who cares" about these 
annoyances.  The Windows developers, on the other hand, will say, "We'll 
fix it right away"

With Linux, if an application or method (like cut & paste) is broken, it 
stays broken forever and nobody cares. Or the geeks give back a whole 
lot of belligerent back talk. That's what is REALLY annoying about 
Linux.

-- 
RJ Burke