Re: Discontinuation of GNOME Clipboard Manager

["Mitterer, Christoph Anton" <cam mathematica scientia net>]

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Philip Van Hoof wrote:

|But if I keep supporting the wrong fix, people will not be
|tampered enough to fight the actual problem.

Hmm,.. absolutely true.

|It's a possibility, yes. But I am not planning to waste my time before
|'a' standard is proposed by freedesktop.org. I think they are the only
|ones who can propose a standard that will be adopted by most of not all
|Linux desktop developers. I would hate to see yet another incompatible
|protocol.
|
|My view about 'those other' projects (like KDE) is pretty simple: Lets
|not fight each other by making stuff incompatible, lets fight each other
|by creating betting stuff.. using the standards that we, at some point,
|all agreed to use. And lets use freedesktop.org as the organisation
|telling us what those standards are. Competition is okay .. but not by
|creating a standard for every fucking thing that we implemented.
|Therefor I fear that projects like the bonobo-clipboard are doomed to
|fail (not that I dislike the idea, I do like it..actually).

Well,... you're right. freedesktop.org is THE organisation for doing
this. Perhaps you may want to make a kind of proposal for creating a
standardisation committee. As far as I know there aren't any concrete
efforts to create such a standard at the moment.
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