RE: Gnome FAQ:Cut & Paste

["Dries, Joseph" <joseph dries lmco com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Miguel de Icaza [SMTP:miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 16, 1998 5:37 PM
> To:	lisss@ydab.se
> Subject:	Re: Gnome FAQ:Cut & Paste
> 
> 
> > Does there exist any kind of 'clipboard' for baboon objects, that
> > is, will it be possible to cut and paste baboon objects in GNOME?
> > (So far I've heard a lot about 'drag-and-drop', but nothing about
> > 'cut / copy - paste.  So far, 'cut'n paste' is the only thing in
> > windows that I really have missed in unix.)
> 
> Yes, we will have a clipboard.  It is very simple to implement, as it
> will use the same facilities written for drag and drop of baboon
> components.
> 
	Since the tense is future-present, meaning "will have"... I don't
remember if it was Apple MacOS, or (ugh) Windows for Workgroups, but there
was a concept of a Clipbook, rather than clipboard. Basically it was a
tabbed clipboard that allowed multiple cuts and copies. Additionally, you
could share out pages of your Clipbook so that someone else could
network-paste from your Clipbook to their application. With some ACLs, that
kind of paradigm kinda fits in with the N of GNOME... Is that type of
functionality intended for the GNOME clipboard/book?