Re: X clipboard

[Ralf Nolden <nolden kde org>]

On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:55, Havoc Pennington wrote:

Hi,

thanks for notifying us. The whole clipboard thing is (on the KDE side) a Qt 
thing and I've forwarded it to the appropriate people to answer and clarify 
this. Note that it may take some days as everyone is heading off for 
christmas holidays (we just wanted the beta out the door before everyone 
leaves).

I'll be unavailable until Dec. 26 most of the time and don't know if I will 
be able to have internet access over the holidays.

Ralf
> Diego González <dggonz yahoo com> writes:
> > 	while reading the KDE 3.0 beta 1 announcement i found this, it talks
> > about the clipboard that KDE 3.0 provides:
> >
> >     *  KDE continues to offer the standard X-type clipboard; selected
> > text is copied to this clipboard, and clicking the middle mouse button
> > pastes the contents of this clipboard; and
> >     * KDE also offers a complementary, independent Windows/Mac-type
> > clipboard; text is inserted in the clipboard using an application's
> > cut/copy (or generally Ctrl-x, Ctrl-c) function, and the application's
> > paste (or generally Ctrl-x) function pastes the contents of this
> > clipboard;
> >
> > maybe it is time to talk to them about implementing a clipboard server
> > (?) specification so that applications running in GNOME and KDE can
> > interoperate and use a clipboard better than the one X-Window provides.
>
> I think this announcement must be confused - X already has a
> Windows/Mac type clipboard.
>
>   http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt
>
> I hope nothing incompatible has been introduced, that will just make
> the whole clipboard confusion worse.  Can someone clarify?
>
> Havoc