Re: will the Bonobo Clipboard be accepted to be a part of the GNOME 2 API?

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> Also, bonobo-clipboard raises a significant architectural question of
> whether we want a bonobo-based clipboard mechanism to be the default,
> or do something based on the normal X mechanisms for greater
> compatibility with non-GNOME apps.

Sadly, I have to agree with your other points (altough I think GNOME 2
would be a great time to introduce the Clipboard).

But this `wether we want a bonobo-based clipboard mechanism' thing sounds
as if I haven't posted my initial plans two months before, this sounds as
if there hasn't been several threads about this on gnome-components-list,
this sounds as if this was a totally vapour `i have an idea let's do this
who wants to implement?' project.

Plus, my current efforts include a way to synchronize text/plain content
with the X clipboard. I don't think we can get much better than that when
dealing with interoperability with legacy non-GNOME applications. And
remember how a `GNOME 2 application' is also a `Bonobo application', so
this shouldn't be a problem.

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