Re: [Gimp-developer] Why does it take so long until Gimp finds out that no image is on the clipboard

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 03/05/2020 20:07, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 19:17 +0200, Adalbert Hanßen wrote:
> > Whatreally annoys me isthat it takes almost a minute for Gimp to tell
> > me that there is no image on the clipboard.
> Is this under GNOME 3? or KDE/plasma? Do you have a clipboard manager
> running?
>
>
> > * Why does it take that long?
> It doesn't, here.
>
> > * What can developers do to speed up the error message in such a
> > situation?
> Fix the bug, but that involves understanding whenand why it happens and
> what is causing it.
>
> > * By the way: Is there a method such that one can see what type of
> > data is on the clipboard: text/image/file designation/spreadsheet
> > data, ...?
> Again, depends on desktop enviroment and whether wayland or X11, but
> yes, there are clipboard managers that can show it. KDE has one running
> all the time i think.

Yes, Klipper in KDE can display images in the clipboard. However,
clipboard operations are not that simple under the hood. For large data
such as image, the source app doesn't really copy the data but some kind
of announcement, so during the paste the pasting app retrieves the data
from the source app and this source app may misbehave.