Comment 62 for bug 11334

Yesterday my father wanted to log on to a website. He didn't know the password anymore, so he looked up this password in Evolution, copied the password, closed Evolution and tried to paste the password in Firefox. The paste function was greyed out and my father thought he had clicked on the wrong button, instead of the copy button. He opened Evolution again, copied the password from the e-mail, closed Evolution and tried to paste the password in Firefox. Again he was unable to paste the password and he really had no clue what was going on.

As I said before a working copy and paste function is one of the basic features of an operating system. This is something that has to work... always. A lot of people have lost already lost their work, because this basic function of an operating system still doesn't work. There are a lot of stories of people who type a long reply in an text editor and after more than one hour of work copy this reply, close the editor and try to paste it in Firefox to reply on a forum. All of the work is gone and there's no way to get it back. More than one hour of work is gone.

People don't want to loose hours of work, only because a basic feature of an operating system doesn't work. This is one of the reasons people go back to Windows or buy a Mac. On these operating systems copy / paste works the way it should work and they won't loose their work, because they closed the source.

If you want to be taken seriously, than implement a copy / paste function that works the way it should work. Otherwise people will always look at Ubuntu as an half-baked, amaturistic operating system.

It can't be that hard to implement, because Desktop Data Manager already makes it work the way it should. Take the source code of this application, take out all unneeded featues (screenshot utility and download manager) and implement it in Ubuntu. Problem solved.