Hello Ken,
On Thurs., May 15, 2014, Ken Keys wrote:
On 5/15/2014 2:10 PM, michael@schloh.com wrote:
On Thurs., May 15, 2014, Ken Keys wrote:
On 5/15/2014 9:38 AM, michael@schloh.com wrote:
If anybody's feeling particularly friendly, then it would be nice of you to do the favour of reviewing the proposed solution to bug #9701:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9701
It relates to clipboard turds of the Tor Browser in violation of the premise of disk avoidance by design. The code in question is attached to the bug report.
- Some versions of the SunOS--maybe Solaris too, I'm not sure--had
a provision where you could copy text without any explicit clip board action. You could just select the text and middle click in the destination. Will this change break that behavior or are these systems still supported?
I couldn't find any official requirements doc stating that all POSIX or certain versions of certain POSIX/LINUX distros are supported.
Regardless of this, I think the highlight and middle click thing is a X11 feature. Good idea to bring this up, but since my Linux tests included mouse as well as middle click action this probably extends to SunOS and other POSIX OSs using X11. Is that your gut feeling too? You think we need more testing using real (VM) SunOS and other platforms?
I had presumed that the feature was implemented by the window manager rather than the underlying X11 system.
Hmm, that could be (although didn't CDE have middle pasting as well?) The problem is that tests combining the set of (Gnome|Enlightenment|KDE|CDE|Unity|Xfe|LXDE|?) with (Distro|32/64Arch|Version) is prohibitive.
That's why I was trying to make the change as surgical as possible. The proposed solution changes nothing for selections <1Mo and reverts to pre-file cache logic (year 1999) for selections >1Mo.
I need to get my Linux box up and running again. I don't think it would be necessary to test on the actual OS as long as the feature can be exercised on the test rig. If the feature is not covered by a test case it wouldn't help to run it on the actual OS.
I don't know of a test rig that middle clicks, but I'm kind of new here. So you don't think it would help to do one or two tests on a less popular or exotic platform with a non Gnome/KDE/Unity? The problem with Solaris is that all the release since 5 years have used Gnome.
Regards, Michael