Re: [Evolution] clipboard integration

[Gavin Chester <gavinchester1 hotmail com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 20:32 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:16 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > > Evo doesn't seem to integrate itself with the clipboard like all other
> > > apps I use.  That is, I need to leave mail open in a window to copy
> > > parts of it to somewhere else.  Say, I select a link/address from within
> >
> > I've done this loads of times under gnome and it works. Perhaps it's a
> > XFCE issue?
> >
> > Do you have a 3rd mouse button? try selecting the text and using the 3rd
> > mouse button to paste
>
> He's probably using the popup window mail viewer, which does need the
> original window to be around at past time, since it is implemented using
> selections.

_He_ is :-)  And, if this an explanation of why it's not working then I
consider that a serious flaw/bug in Evo in that it is not integrating
with the clipboard in a way consistent with every other GUI app I have
ever used.  The premise is that all data copied to the clipboard is not
purged from there by simply closing the window from which that data came
- it needs to stay there until purged by replacing it with another
selection or shutting down X.

Should I file a bug on it, then?

Gavin