Re: [Patch] A clipboard daemon for gnome-settings-daemon

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 06/09/03 18:20, Hongli Lai wrote:

> Frankly I find it a little hard to believe that a user would not be 
> aware of
>
> the fact that he has just copied 20 MB of data to the clipboard, if he opens 
> a 20 MB text file and do Select All + Copy.
>  
With the X clipboard model, the app may not read all 20MB of data into 
memory, but make it available for pasting (no data is transfered until 
the selection is requested).  If the app is smart, it can short circuit 
cut'n'paste operations within the application so that no data needs to 
be transfered through the X server.

With a clipboard daemon, the selection will always be requested.  If the 
app provides the data in multiple formats (eg. a word processor 
providing the data in plain text, HTML, RTF, etc), the amount of data 
could easily exceed the size of the app's internal representation of the 
clipboard data.

As Jody has said, it isn't clear that always requesting the clipboard 
data is a good idea.  Calling apps that work fine broken seems like a 
cop out.

James.

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