Re: Clipboard daemon

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

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

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