Re: Clipboard daemon

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

oops.  accidentally hit send :(

On 29/10/2003 10:46 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:

> There is a key distinction here that you must realise:
> * The OLE clipboard on Windows is scoped local to a PROCESS not a WINDOW *
>
> The reason everybody hates the X clipboard is because it's window scoped.
> For instance, if I type something into an Evolution mail window, copy it,
> create a new message window then try and paste it in, it'll work only as
> long as the original window exists. This has bit me several times.
>
> If the clipboard persisted as long as Evolution did, really this would not
> be a huge problem.

The GtkClipboard code in GTK should make it easy to get behaviour 
similar to the Windows OLE clipboard.  Yes, X selections are released 
when the window that has claimed them disapears, but there is no reason 
why the selection needs to be claimed by the window corresponding to the 
editor widget.

With GtkClipboard, another window is created to own the selection, so 
that the data can persist til the application exits.

James.

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