RE: Clipboard, clipboard on the wall...

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

I thaught somewhere I saw something about a standard X clipboard project
like the drag and drop standard. Ill try to find it. It would be great to
have something that would work console as well. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Svanberg Liss [SMTP:lisss@ydab.se]
> Sent:	Monday, February 01, 1999 12:27 PM
> To:	Gnome MAIN Mailing list (E-mail); Fox, Kevin M
> Subject:	RE: Clipboard, clipboard on the wall...
> 
> > > Dont know. I did see something about a standard X clipboard on
> freshmeat.
> > > Maby you might want to check it out. It would be verry nice to have a
> > > standard X clipboard for all X apps. 
> 
> Okay, I've checked freshmeat out now. 
> Apparently, It's a clipboard history list for KDE. 
> (Does KDE use the X clipboard, or does it use it's own inplementation?) 
> 
> Anyway... Some time ago, there were a lot of talking about writing a
> decent clipboard, not just for Gnome and X windows, but allso for native
> (console) applications (providing that they did compile in the cut&paste
> ability :)
> 
> A smart, reconfigurable clipboard, there you would be able to store the
> 'clips' not just in memory, but allso in other media (in a file, or
> something) , and there you would be able to share the 'clips' over a
> network...
> 
> What has happened to these idea's? 
> 
>  - I would like to know, because if someone allready has written one, or
> is in late progress of writing one, then it's of no value that I continues
> to work with this things...
> 
> 
> // Liss 
>