Re: Clipboard daemon

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:46:10PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Merging Honglis patch into gnome-settings-daemon would be a good first
> step. It might not be perfect, but I'd rather increase resource usage than
> lose the users work, which unfortunately is a nasty consequence of this
> bug. I've lost work because of this before, and it is extremely annoying.

I would not favour merging the patch unless there is a way for an
application to opt out.  Gnumeric has received alot of bug reports
from irrate kde users who are not happy their machine has ground to
a halt just because they did a 'select all' in a sheet.