[Sugar-devel] Proposed solution to OLPC #10930

[Simon Schampijer]

On 07/08/2011 01:08 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>  wrote:
>> On 06/23/2011 03:53 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>>
>>> I was working in the solution of OLPC #10930 "copy/paste does not work in
>>> if
>>> one has not revealed the edit toolbar once"
>>> The problem can be reproduced in activities with the new toolbars, like
>>> Terminal or Browse.
>>> For example, in Terminal, if you open the activity, select a text and
>>> press
>>> "Shift-Ctrl-C", nothing is copied,
>>> if you show the Edit toolbar and try pressing "Sift-Ctrl-C" again, the
>>> text
>>> is copied.
>>> The same happen in Browse with "Ctrl-C"
>>
>> The problem seem to 'only' exist in Terminal, other Activities with the new
>> toolbars like Browse and Write do work fine. This is because Terminal does
>> override the shortcut to "Sift-Ctrl-C". Maybe this changes the approach of
>> fixing the issue.
>
> The problem is not only in Terminal. I have the same problem with
> Turtle Art, where I don'[t try to override the shortcut. My workaround
> had been to open and then close the edit toolbar on startup, but that
> only seems to work intermittently these days.
>
> See http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2050
> See http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2751
>
> regards.
>
> -walter

Ohh, I see - thanks Walter for the update on this.

Regards,
    Simon