On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 07:26 +0200, Hongli Lai wrote: > Jerry Haltom wrote: > > 8. Why not implement some sort of Clipboard Daemon (clipd) which has the > > logic available to it, either through plug-ins or natively to transform > > the data from one type to another. > > No, I'm talking about a clipboard daemon that holds the data on > *application exit*. This hasn't been suggested by anyone. > > The daemon doesn't have any logic, you just send data to it when the app > exits, and it'll keep the data in memory, that's it. If you use shared > memory, no data is actually copied, thus no performance problems. > Basically it's functionally the same as keeping the app running, except > that the data is now stored by a daemon instead of the app itself, which > means you won't have to worry about buggy apps. This does not deal well with the case of our mythical film editing app which offers in 73 different formats the 724 minute long movie I've just copied into the clipboard... -- m -- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano gnome org>
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