Re: Follow up about X clipboard

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 20:16, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:49:14AM -0700, Alan wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:40:47AM -0300, Mariano Su?rez-Alvarez wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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...
> > 
> > Dealing with all cases now is great, but how many users are really
> > copying around 800 megs of data in 80 different formats?  Most are like
> > me and get pissed off that I have to keep gedit open to paste text into
> > mozilla (or vice versa).  
> 
> 800 meg x 80 formats may be extreme but it is not terribly hard to
> imagine either.  Even with smaller chunks of only a few meg, the
> processing power necessary to generate several formats can be enough
> that you do not want it to occur every time the clipboard is used.
> The finger feel would be terrible if ctrl-C would take 5 seconds.
> There is the added penalty tha many of these formats will not be
> generally used and may not even be loaded unless explicitly
> requested.
> 
> A 5 second delay when exiting may be acceptable, especially if it's
> hidden from the user via a sureptitious folk.

That would still mean a delay before pasting worked, and therefore it
would mean that pasting would not appear to work at all. There may no
way around this. In my own tests with gnumeric, I find that the problem
exists with or without a clipboard daemon.

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