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

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Andrew Sobala wrote:

> 2) With large amounts of data, have the clipboard manager warn the user
> on the application's exit

How do I detect when the application is about to exit, without patching 
every single application (or toolkit) out there?


> that this is a large amount of data on the
> clipboard and will take up a lot of memory to keep it there, are they
> sure they want to do this. Like Windows does.
>  

Again, the Windows "clipboard manager" doesn't do that, MS Word or 
Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro do that. It's the application asking whether 
you want to clear the clipboard, not the clipboard itself.