[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 43700] New: Selecting text shouWelcome to Bugzilla. To see what's new in this version of Bugzilla, see the release notes! You may also want to read the Bugzilla User's Guide to find out more about Bugzilla and how to use it. Mosldn't fire incremental clipboard events

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           Summary: Selecting text shouWelcome to Bugzilla. To see what's
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                    it. Mosldn't fire incremental clipboard events
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit Gtk
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: sdh at google.com


To reproduce:
 1. install a clipboard manager such as Glipper
 2. select a few words of text with the mouse
 3. look at the clipboard history and notice that there's an entry for every letter, wiping out most/all previous history

I don't know how the select-text-to-copy-it mechanism works internally, but since there's not really any way for the user to paste before mouseup anyway, webkit probably shouldn't report to the system that text is to be copied until mouseup.  Compare to, say, gnome-terminal's behavior, where selecting several words of text in the same way produces only a single clipboard history entry.

Note also that this happens when unselecting text before a mouseup as well (i.e. highlight a word, then drag back to unhighlight it before letting go).

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