Re: Bonobo Clipboard, try #1

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

>         Firstly it would be tempting not to, and just stringify various
> monikers to the X clipboard, _however_ this may have issues, since when
> some other app copies, it overwrites our stringified moniker but doesn't
> unref the implementation.

  I haven't looked at the X clipboard stuff in a long while but I am
pretty sure you get a notification when the clipboard gets replaced or
cleared; so in that case, you just unref yourself.

>         Secondly, if we have the moniker stored there, we can also hand
> out Streams and Storages in order to seralize unsaved documents to allow
> pastage without having first saved the file.

  Hm, can you please explain this a bit more?  I am not sure I follow
you here.

  My feeling is that X can act as a clipboard server just fine.  :-)

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Ettore