Re: Clipboard daemon

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:16:21PM +0100, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: desktop-devel-list-admin gnome org 
> > I could try making the daemon to check for a special 
> > "_DONT_SAVE" atom 
> > (or something like that)...
> 
> When I asked Klipper maintainer, he pointed out this freedesktop.org
> specification:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/clipboards-extension-spec
> which he is happy to implement instead.
> 
> Does this seem to be a suitable solution?
> 
> It pleases me that a KDE hacker had to point out a freedesktop.org
> specification to GNOME hackers.

The Klipper fellow has mentioned that proposal before.  Sadly it is
mostly useless unless the application pretends.  The mechanism it
proposes requires the app to approximate how much content will be
produced.  Doing even an approximate measurement will require the
loading of all of the supported clipboard exporters, which is part
of what I want to avoid.

It's only use, as far as I can tell, is to lie and set the max to 0 as
a proxy for 'OPT_OUT_OF_CLIPBOARD_MANAGEMENT'.  Using an ultra
coarse approximation
    eg number_of_cells x 1k + sum(embedded_images)
is going to produce wild overstatements for most formats