Re: X clipboard

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On 21 Dec 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

>  - "xclipboard" (as the ICCCM itself suggests) - a clipboard 
>    server that takes over selections immediately.

XClipboard, IIRC, only stores TEXT selections.

I've always been saying that you shouldn't make app authors having to deal
with clipboard persistancy, and all in all I don't think this problem
space can be solved using only X features.
Sure, you could create XClipboard++ that stored every selection, but then
you face terrible performance problems when someone copies a Gimp image to
the clipboard.

I know that the fact that I've abandoned implementing the bonobo-clipboard
design makes me sound like a whiner on this issue, but I'm still believing
in the bonobo-clipboard design.

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