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I still don't get buffers (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by whats_all_this_then@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 months ago

Y'all haven't heard of Windows clipboard history? Windows + V will change your life, I tell ya!

[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Last I checked you have to enable it, which is annoying.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

You use it once, it asks if you want to enable, and you click literally one button.

[-] suy@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile, this was a feature on KDE-land since Klipper, which goes back (as far as I know and if I remember well) to KDE 3 or sooner.

[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

There have been third party clipboard managers forever in windows, which is kind of funny because that is almost more like the unix philosophy than expecting the UI system to handle it all.

[-] suy@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

Klipper was entirely a different program, process, etc. that was using the system tray. Nowadays it seems to be a plasmoid in the system tray. How can that be less of a UNIX philosophy than the Windows alternative? Because it's developed by the same community that makes the shell? That doesn't make sense to me.

[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Then it's not really an apt comparison as the two are comparable. I had assumed based on context we were talking about our of the box functionality from KDE, but if it's not, then KDE and Windows had equivalent lack of clipboard history without extra tools installed.