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- From: "Kevin O'Donovan" <abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Shortcuts file and other digested material
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 12:14:58 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <9407280219.AA24819@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> from "Warwick Allison" at Jul 28, 94 12:19:07 pm
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- Warwick Allison said:
- [comments about X11 like text selection by multiple clicks, and hidden
- functionallity in widgets]
-
- I must admit, you've certainly reinforced my feelings that I should implement
- this*. Can I suggest that we add this to the list of things for proper
- discussion by the Gem list, once the current issues are resolved?
-
- * refers of course to the selection stuff, not the hidden functionallity bit.
-
- > Again, proviso: if an application doesn't want to implement these things,
- > that is fine, but if they DO, then it's easier if there is one clear way
- > of doing it.
- But if we as library writes can implement these things for the programmer
- without him having to do anything about it, then all apps could benefit
- from these without cost. For example, reading of the app-defaults file could
- be done as part of the library initialisation code.
-
- Kev
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