Pathing in the D ecosystem is generally broken (at least on windows)

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 07:29:23 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/28/2015 11:16 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Well, I would have thought that it was clearly designed with 
>> the idea that you'd
>> click on the edit button to edit it. And you can copy and 
>> paste the data from
>> the edit dialog.
>
> I should be able to copy any text on the screen.

Well, I don't know of any operating system where that's possible. 
For instance, clicking on the title bar and dragging the mouse is 
going to result in the window being dragged in every desktop 
environment that I know of, not select the text on it, and it 
would never work for the text on a button to be selectable, since 
any attempt to select it would press the button. Maybe more of 
the text in GUIs should be copyable than is, but that's pretty 
clearly not generally a goal of GUI designers or of how GUI 
toolkits are designed.

There have certainly been times where I've wanted to copy text 
that was not selectable for some reason (or selectable but not 
copyable), but it sounds like you have a much higher expectation 
of text selectability than I do.

- Jonathan M Davis