RE: Clipboard history idea.

[Gleef <gleef capital net>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Liss Svanberg wrote:
> Dries, Joseph [joseph.dries@lmco.com] said:
> 
> > If you check the archives, I had proposed there be something like a
> > "clipbook", that allowed you to copy multiple items to the clipboard, and
> > you can select which items to paste. Additionally, you could enable a
> > network-based publish and subscribe type of arrangement. You could select
> > certain "pages" of the clipbook as shared (with ACLs of course), or you
> > could subscribe to someone else's published "page". This is a natual
> > application for a CORBA implementation. 
> >
> > Unfortunately, at the time, no one picked up on the idea.
> 
> I remember that discussion.
> If I doesn't recall things wrong - wasn't Baboon supposed to become the 
> clipboard/clipbook manager of Gnome?
> (If I'm wrong, please correct me! I doesn't like to be wrong... :)

>From what I recall, prior attempts to come up with a design for a 
clipboard system were shelved because we did not have something like
Baboon yet.  Now that Baboon is here, it should be much easier to design
such a beast, but Baboon alone isn't sufficient.  So, mostly right :-).

-Gleef