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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org> writes:
> On 29 Jul 2001, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> > I realize that this requires a daemon or something... But from a UI
> > perspective it is very important that the clipboard retain data even
> > after the application from which the data is snitched disappears. I
> > don't know whether this would influence the design of the Bonobo part of
> > the clipboard or not, I just thought I'd mention it.
> 
> Of course I can't speak for the hyptothetical yet-to-be-designed X-based
> clipboard but the current design (and implementation -- see the
> bonobo-clibpoard module) takes this into consideration of course.
> 

Hang on, the X clipboard is 15 years old, we are not talking about any
hypothetical undesigned thing. ;-)

Havoc