Re: X clipboard

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/students/merchan/GNOME/simpleclipbook.tar.gz

Excerpt from the README:
| I was sick of hearing about the clipboard, so I stayed up all night to make
| the clipboard I was developing work for at least the common text types.
|
| Dynamic type support is planned, along with proper content reporting
| and transfer. I do not think this is 64-bit clean yet; reports on such
| problems are much appreciated.
|
| You will almost certainly find bugs in this.
|
| The Makefile is simple and does not install. This is not a release.


This is basically xclipboard but done with Gtk+ 1.3.xx.



On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 06:15:41PM -0800, George wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:25:16PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > OTOH Diego's suggestion of a separate clipboard server _is_ what
> > > would make kde/gnome applications incompatible with everything else
> > > (older kde/gnome apps, motif / Xt / etc. apps).
> > 
> > I agree with that 100%. An incompatible clipboard solution is a
> > terrible, terrible idea.
> 
> Unless I am smoking crack, which is highly possible.  I think a separate
> clipboard server would be good
> 
> 1) the server could also use provide the standard X CLIPBOARD selection
>    to provide compatibility.
> 
> 2) The problem is (here is where my crack smoking could have affected
>    my memory) that in X if you say cut something from document A in say
>    AbiWord, then save the file, close abiword, open say KWord, and
>    say 'paste', you will be unpleasantly supprised that there is NOTHING
>    to paste.  And you've lost the data.
> 
> Another solution (maybe even more on crack) presents self:
> 
> The app knows when it holds the clipboard.  If the user closes the app, the
> app would not close until something else got the clipboard.  It would
> just close all it's windows and just work as a something to provide the
> clipboard data if someone asks for it.
> 
> George
> 
> -- 
> George <jirka 5z com>
>    You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun
>    than you can with a kind word alone.
>                        -- Al Capone