15 May
2014
15 May
'14
10:10 p.m.
On 5/15/2014 2:10 PM, michael@schloh.com wrote: > Hello Ken, > > 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. >>> >> >> >1. 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. I have never seen it in a Mosaic (DEC, HP) based system but that doesn't mean they wouldn't support the feature with the correct settings in various resource files. I'm pretty ignorant about the various Linux distros. 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.