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Some reasoning behind why it's risky to remove the cut/copy/paste

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 : This would also allow a cleaner and more logical separation between menus (as I have [[Talk:Firefox/4.0_Windows_Theme_Mockups#Menus_.C3.97_3|previously described]]): the Application menu (whatever it’s called) shows items contextual to the whole Application, the Page menu shows items contextual to the page as a whole, and the context menu shows items contextual to objects under the pointer (selections, images, links, toolbar buttons, etc.).
 : —[[User:David Regev|David Regev]] 06:51, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
+I know about the Jensen Harris study (and I quote from it all the time too ;), but it doesn't mean that everyone uses the context menu, just that it's the first thing people try on the Windows platform when they don't know what to do, since a lot of the UI design there encourages that behavior.
+Think about naïve Mac users — their computers have had one button since the very beginning, and still does — even though they support right-clicking with their new mice and trackpads, it's not the default.
+If we're going to make it only appear on the context menu, it would probably only be that way on Windows. I definitely think it's worth considering, but it's also a very risky thing to remove, since it's so commonly used.
+The same talk from Jensen Harris also explains why the paste button is so big in Office — it's the most used function by orders of magnitude. :)
+— Alex Limi, 2009-09-15